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Enrollment
781
Combined
STATE 498
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HOZHO ACADEMY·NCES 350017901136
HOZHO ACADEMY
515 PARK AVE, GALLUP, NM 87301 · (505) 722-4463 · McKinley County
GRADES PK–11COMBINED33-TOWNCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL781 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 46% of New Mexico public schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Mexico public schools
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
66 FTE teachers
STATE 11.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
781 students
STATE 90%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other combined schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 20 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 65 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 85 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 59 | 8% |
| Grade 4 | 59 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 58 | 7% |
| Grade 6 | 85 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 78 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 77 | 10% |
| Grade 9 | 41 | 5% |
| Grade 10 | 40 | 5% |
| Grade 11 | 43 | 6% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is 16% smaller than its 8th grade class (77).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
STATE 55% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NM-MSSA + NM-ASR 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
42.9%
NM avg 44.2%
Math
27.4%
NM avg 27.2%
What this means: On the NM-MSSA + NM-ASR, New Mexico's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Mexico schools, those numbers are about 44 and 27.
Source: NM-MSSA + NM-ASR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
36.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.4%
based on NM schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for New Mexico schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Mexico's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like HOZHO ACADEMY
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOZHO ACADEMY this school | 781 | 100.0% | 36.2% |
| Mescalero Apache School Mescalero | 614 | 99.5% | N/A |
| MISSION ACHIEVEMENT AND SUCCESS 2.0 ALBUQUERQUE | 1,040 | 99.6% | 44.4% |
| ASPEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL SANTA FE | 285 | 98.6% | 25.3% |
| Pine Hill Schools Pine Hill | 315 | 99.0% | N/A |
| Alamo Navajo Community School Alamo | 290 | 99.0% | N/A |
Matched among New Mexico K-12 schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where HOZHO ACADEMY ranks
Among K-12 schools| Measure | This school | In New Mexico |
|---|---|---|
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.4% | #2 of 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.9% | #2 of 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 781 | #4 of 20 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.8:1 | #6 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.7% | #1 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #2 of 15 |
Ranked against other public K-12 schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
781
+372 (+91%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
was 17.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 781 | 66.3 | 11.8:1 | 100% (781) |
| 2023-24 | 685 | 55.3 | 12.4:1 | 99% (679) |
| 2022-23 | 616 | 40.2 | 15.3:1 | 100% (616) |
| 2020-21 | 409 | 24 | 17.0:1 | 56% (228) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HOZHO ACADEMY.
About HOZHO ACADEMY
HOZHO ACADEMY, located in GALLUP, New Mexico, is a large school serving multiple grade levels. The school runs pre-K through 11 and enrolls 781 students. Combined schools in New Mexico have about 498 students on average; enrollment here is 57% higher.
HOZHO ACADEMY is its own local education agency in federal data.
About 36% of students at HOZHO ACADEMY are Native American, the largest single group. The rest of enrollment is 36% Hispanic, 14% White, and 13% multiracial. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 71%.
HOZHO ACADEMY reports a ratio of 11.8 students per teacher, from 66.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 11.3:1 average for combined schools in New Mexico. Lunch program data show 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. On average, public schools in McKinley County report 85%.
Among New Mexico public schools, HOZHO ACADEMY outscored 46%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
HOZHO ACADEMY's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 36.2% is 2.8 points above the 33.4% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In the surrounding county, McKinley County, the median household earns about $47,668 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 13%, and roughly 28% of residents are in poverty. McKinley County has 53 public schools with about 16,807 students, including HOZHO ACADEMY.
HOZHO ACADEMY is about 0.5 miles from LINCOLN ELEMENTARY, its nearest public school. HOZHO ACADEMY has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts HOZHO ACADEMY at 3rd of 7.
In the federal locale system, HOZHO ACADEMY is coded Town: Remote, for schools in a town far from an urbanized area. HOZHO ACADEMY is a public charter school.
Reported enrollment: 409 (2020-21) and 781 (2024-25). These figures may describe different sets of grades. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (11.8:1) than in 2020-21 (17.0:1).
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McKinley County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
70,431
Census ACS
Median income
$47,668
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
13%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
28%
Below federal line
Schools in county
53
16,807 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in GALLUP
- GALLUP CENTRAL ALTERNATIVEHigh · 1,244 students
- MIYAMURA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,237 students
- GALLUP HIGHHigh · 796 students
- JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLEMiddle · 648 students
- CHIEF MANUELITO MIDDLEMiddle · 634 students
- GALLUP MIDDLEMiddle · 480 students
Nearby schools
- LINCOLN ELEMENTARY0.5 mi · 414
- GALLUP MIDDLE0.6 mi · 480
- SIX DIRECTIONS INDIGENOUS SCHOOL0.9 mi · 58
- RED ROCK ELEMENTARY0.9 mi · 311
- DEL NORTE ELEMENTARY1.0 mi · 424
- EDUCATION DEV CENTER1.1 mi · 5
Frequently asked questions
About HOZHO ACADEMYHow large is HOZHO ACADEMY?
HOZHO ACADEMY enrolls approximately 781 students in grades PK-11.
What age range does HOZHO ACADEMY serve?
HOZHO ACADEMY serves students from grade PK through grade 11.
What is the student-teacher ratio at HOZHO ACADEMY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at HOZHO ACADEMY is approximately 11.8:1 (66 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at HOZHO ACADEMY?
At HOZHO ACADEMY, the student body is approximately 14% White, 36% Hispanic, 0% Black, 1% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Is HOZHO ACADEMY public or private?
HOZHO ACADEMY is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by HOZHO ACADEMY.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.