JAMES BICKLEY ELEMENTARY

Set in CLOVIS, New Mexico, JAMES BICKLEY ELEMENTARY is a moderately sized primary school, overseen by CLOVIS. It serves 305 students across grades pre-K through 5.

CLOVIS comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 7,780 students; JAMES BICKLEY ELEMENTARY is among them.

On the student-mix side, JAMES BICKLEY ELEMENTARY shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 80% of enrollment. Other groups include 9% White, 6% Black, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 46%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, JAMES BICKLEY ELEMENTARY has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.9:1 average. Roughly 74% of students at JAMES BICKLEY ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Curry County runs at roughly 85%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, JAMES BICKLEY ELEMENTARY is in the bottom 10% of New Mexico public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 39.7%; JAMES BICKLEY ELEMENTARY posts 21.6%, -18.1 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Curry County indicate median household earnings sit near $57,309, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Curry County runs 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,777 students), of which JAMES BICKLEY ELEMENTARY is one.

MARSHALL 6TH GRADE ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, JAMES BICKLEY ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 35.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 307 students in 2018 compared to 305 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 18% to 9% over that span.

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