KISER ELEMENTARY

KISER ELEMENTARY is a middle-grades school of very small scale in CLAYTON, New Mexico, one of the schools within CLAYTON, educateing 63 students in grades 5 through 6. By comparison, New Mexico's public schools average about 335 students each, so KISER ELEMENTARY sits 81% below that benchmark.

CLAYTON runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 397 students. KISER ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, KISER ELEMENTARY records that 62% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 32% White, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 40% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.5:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Union County's rate of about 85%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, KISER ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.4%; this one delivers 43.8%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Union County) logs that median household earnings sit near $46,694, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Union County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 534 students), of which KISER ELEMENTARY is one.

The closest other public school is CLAYTON JUNIOR HIGH, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around KISER ELEMENTARY. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), KISER ELEMENTARY ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 50.8%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at KISER ELEMENTARY has shrank 18%, going from 77 students in 2018 to 63 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 40% to 32% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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