LAVALAND ELEMENTARY

Located at 501 57TH ST NW, in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, LAVALAND ELEMENTARY is an average-sized K-5 school that caters to 369 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by ALBUQUERQUE. That puts it 29% larger than the typical public school in New Mexico, which averages around 287 students.

ALBUQUERQUE runs 171 schools in total, collectively educating 74,041 students. LAVALAND ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, LAVALAND ELEMENTARY logs that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 5% White, 2% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.9:1, putting LAVALAND ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Bernalillo County runs at roughly 90%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LAVALAND 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 20.8%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Bernalillo County indicate 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%. LAVALAND ELEMENTARY is one of 211 public schools in Bernalillo County (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students).

JOHN ADAMS MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LAVALAND ELEMENTARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LAVALAND ELEMENTARY at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 24.1%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. LAVALAND ELEMENTARY's enrollment has fell 37% since 2018, when it stood at 590 (now 369). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

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