INDIAN HILLS ELEMENTARY

INDIAN HILLS ELEMENTARY is an elementary-level community of middle-of-the-pack scale in GALLUP, New Mexico, run under GALLUP, caters to 294 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within GALLUP, which oversees 33 schools and 12,698 students, INDIAN HILLS ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, INDIAN HILLS ELEMENTARY records that the most-represented group is Native American (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 29% Hispanic, 9% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, INDIAN HILLS ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.4%, the actual is 32.1%, a residual of -4.3 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (McKinley County) records that median household income runs about $47,668, 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 28%. Across McKinley County's 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,807 students), INDIAN HILLS ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE, roughly 1.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around INDIAN HILLS ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, INDIAN HILLS ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at INDIAN HILLS ELEMENTARY has held roughly steady, going from 297 students in 2018 to 294 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 21% to 29% over that span.

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