JOHN ADAMS MIDDLE

JOHN ADAMS MIDDLE, a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, run under ALBUQUERQUE, caters to 420 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 335 students per school, that is 25% larger than typical.

ALBUQUERQUE runs 171 schools in total, collectively educating 74,041 students. JOHN ADAMS MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, JOHN ADAMS MIDDLE logs that nearly all students (84%) are Hispanic; the rest consists of 6% White, 5% Native American, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 49% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.5:1, putting JOHN ADAMS MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Bernalillo County (around 90%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, JOHN ADAMS MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.5%, the actual is 20.6%, a residual of -13.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Bernalillo County shows the typical household earns roughly $69,473 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. JOHN ADAMS MIDDLE is one of 211 public schools in Bernalillo County (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students).

Nearest neighbor: LAVALAND ELEMENTARY, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JOHN ADAMS MIDDLE ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 30.9%.

JOHN ADAMS MIDDLE operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JOHN ADAMS MIDDLE has decreased 26%, going from 569 students in 2018 to 420 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 in 2025.

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