HODGIN ELEMENTARY

HODGIN ELEMENTARY is one of the moderately sized elementary schools in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, overseen by ALBUQUERQUE, with 392 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New Mexico's public schools average about 287 students each, so HODGIN ELEMENTARY sits 37% above that benchmark.

Within ALBUQUERQUE, which oversees 171 schools and 74,041 students, HODGIN ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

On demographics, HODGIN ELEMENTARY shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 17% Native American, 14% White, 10% multiracial, 5% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Bernalillo County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.9:1, putting HODGIN ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Bernalillo County (around 90%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), HODGIN ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.6%, the actual is 20.6%, a residual of -13.1 points.

In the surrounding 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%. HODGIN ELEMENTARY is one of 211 public schools in Bernalillo County (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students).

Nearest neighbor: MCKINLEY MIDDLE, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HODGIN ELEMENTARY ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 29.0%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 22%: 504 students in 2018 compared to 392 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share declined from 60% to 53%. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

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