JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY

JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY, a reasonably sized K-5 school in HOBBS, New Mexico, overseen by HOBBS, educates 316 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY is one of 18 schools operated by HOBBS, a district that teaches 10,097 students overall.

Looking at the student body, JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY records that nearly all students (84%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 12% 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 income-and-resources front, JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY reports 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.9:1, putting JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 69% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.9%, the actual is 28.4%, a residual of -12.6 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Lea County indicate median household earnings sit near $68,015, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lea County's 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,126 students), JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

WILL ROGERS ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 29.5%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 378 students in 2018 compared to 316 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 77% to 84%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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