HAWTHORNE ELEMENTARY

HAWTHORNE ELEMENTARY is a moderately sized K-5 school in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, overseen by ALBUQUERQUE. The school instructs 288 students in grades pre-K through 5.

HAWTHORNE ELEMENTARY is one of 171 schools operated by ALBUQUERQUE, a district that teaches 74,041 students overall.

On the student-mix side, HAWTHORNE ELEMENTARY records that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder consists of 8% Native American, 5% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 49% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, HAWTHORNE ELEMENTARY reports 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.9:1, putting HAWTHORNE ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Bernalillo County runs at roughly 90%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HAWTHORNE ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.7%, the actual is 22.1%, a residual of -11.6 points.

In the broader community, census data for Bernalillo County shows the typical household earns roughly $69,473 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Bernalillo County's 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students), HAWTHORNE ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

GRANT MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HAWTHORNE ELEMENTARY ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 25.5%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 42%: 498 students in 2018 compared to 288 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 10% to 5% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 8.9:1 today.

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