HEIZER MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in HOBBS, New Mexico, HEIZER MIDDLE SCHOOL is a sprawling intermediate school, part of HOBBS. It educates 606 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 81% larger than the typical public school in New Mexico, which averages around 335 students.

HOBBS runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 10,097 students. HEIZER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, HEIZER MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (90%); the rest reads as 6% White, 2% Black. By comparison, Lea County as a whole is about 63% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, HEIZER MIDDLE SCHOOL has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. The state averages around 12.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 77% of students at HEIZER MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, HEIZER MIDDLE SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New Mexico public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 39.0%; HEIZER MIDDLE SCHOOL posts 21.5%, -17.5 points below that line.

In the broader community, census data for Lea County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,015 per year, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. HEIZER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 38 public schools in Lea County (combined enrollment of about 15,126 students).

Nearest neighbor: SOUTHERN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HEIZER MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 30.0%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HEIZER MIDDLE SCHOOL has contracted 7%, going from 650 students in 2018 to 606 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 83% to 90% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

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