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What's something LAVALAND ELEMENTARY does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
369
Elementary
DISTRICT 345 · STATE 287
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALBUQUERQUE·NCES 350006000077
LAVALAND ELEMENTARY
501 57TH ST NW, ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87105 · (505) 836-4911 · Bernalillo County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL369 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 7% of New Mexico public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Mexico public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 12.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
369 students
DISTRICT 92% · STATE 90%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 25 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 63 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (63) is 5% larger than its 5th grade class (60).
Student demographics
20%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 55% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NM-MSSA + NM-ASR 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
20.5%
NM avg 44.2%
What this means: On the NM-MSSA + NM-ASR, New Mexico's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level. The New Mexico average is about 44 of 100.
Source: NM-MSSA + NM-ASR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
20.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.4%
based on NM schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for New Mexico schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Mexico's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like LAVALAND ELEMENTARY
LAVALAND ELEMENTARY's state test result (20.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAVALAND ELEMENTARY this school | 369 | 100.0% | 20.8% |
| CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY CHAPARRAL | 437 | 100.0% | 27.6% |
| CARLOS REY ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 446 | 99.6% | 27.1% |
| LOMA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY LAS CRUCES | 450 | 100.0% | 23.7% |
| MARYANN BINFORD ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 460 | 100.0% | 24.5% |
| RAMIREZ THOMAS ELEMENTARY SANTA FE | 417 | 100.0% | 18.8% |
Matched among New Mexico elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where LAVALAND ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Mexico | In Bernalillo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.8% | #305 of 329 | #79 of 91 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 20.5% | #342 of 366 | #90 of 101 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 369 | #151 of 490 | #41 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #64 of 318 | #30 of 97 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 20.2% | #268 of 334 | #82 of 97 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #25 of 393 | #11 of 101 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -37.5% | #50 of 287 | #33 of 88 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
369
-55 (-13%) vs 2020
-51% since 1990-91, when it was 751
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 13.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 369 | 33.1 | 11.2:1 | 100% (369) |
| 2023-24 | 394 | 38 | 10.4:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 420 | 33.8 | 12.4:1 | 100% (420) |
| 2020-21 | 424 | 32 | 13.3:1 | 100% (424) |
| 2017-18 | 590 | 37.5 | 15.7:1 | 100% (590) |
| 2015-16 | 654 | 39 | 16.8:1 | 100% (654) |
| 2010-11 | 669 | 39 | 17.1:1 | 100% (666) |
| 2000-01 | 698 | 49 | 14.2:1 | 89% (620) |
| 1990-91 | 751 | 39 | 19.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LAVALAND ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students down 37% (590 to 369); teachers down 12% (37.5 to 33.1).
About LAVALAND ELEMENTARY
LAVALAND ELEMENTARY is a mid-sized elementary school in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, administered by ALBUQUERQUE. It has an enrollment of 369 students in pre-K through 5. Across elementary schools in New Mexico, the average enrollment is about 287.
LAVALAND ELEMENTARY is in ALBUQUERQUE, a district with 74,800 students across 172 schools.
The share of students at LAVALAND ELEMENTARY who are Hispanic is 89%. The remaining students are 5% White and 2% Black. Among people living in Bernalillo County, the Hispanic share is about 49%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 20%.
Its staff includes 33.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 11.2 students per teacher. Compared with the 12.9:1 average for elementary schools in New Mexico, this school's ratio is lower. Roughly 100% of students at LAVALAND ELEMENTARY can receive free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Bernalillo County is 90%.
LAVALAND ELEMENTARY holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 7% of New Mexico public elementary schools.
Compared with New Mexico schools that have similar shares of low-income students, LAVALAND ELEMENTARY's results are 12.6 points below predicted: 20.8% against 33.4%.
Looking at the county, Bernalillo County, the median household earns about $69,473 a year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Bernalillo County has 211 public schools with about 85,724 students, including LAVALAND ELEMENTARY.
LAVALAND ELEMENTARY is about 0.6 miles from JOHN ADAMS MIDDLE, its nearest public school. LAVALAND ELEMENTARY has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. LAVALAND ELEMENTARY ranks 5th of 6 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 20.8% against a local average of 24.1%.
LAVALAND ELEMENTARY falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, LAVALAND ELEMENTARY enrolled 424 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 369. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 13.3:1 to 11.2:1.
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Bernalillo County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
673,930
Census ACS
Median income
$69,473
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
211
85,724 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ALBUQUERQUE
- VOLCANO VISTA HIGHHigh · 2,089 students
- ATRISCO HERITAGE ACADEMY HSHigh · 1,930 students
- LA CUEVA HIGHHigh · 1,826 students
- SANDIA HIGHHigh · 1,618 students
- ELDORADO HIGHCombined · 1,579 students
- ALBUQUERQUE HIGHHigh · 1,568 students
Other schools in ALBUQUERQUE
- VOLCANO VISTA HIGHHigh · 2,089 students
- ATRISCO HERITAGE ACADEMY HSHigh · 1,930 students
- LA CUEVA HIGHHigh · 1,826 students
- SANDIA HIGHHigh · 1,618 students
- ELDORADO HIGHCombined · 1,579 students
- ALBUQUERQUE HIGHHigh · 1,568 students
Nearby schools
- JOHN ADAMS MIDDLE0.6 mi · 420
- WEST MESA HIGH0.7 mi · 1,565
- ALBUQUERQUE TALENT DEVELOPMENT CHARTER1.2 mi · 119
- MARK ARMIJO ACADEMY1.3 mi · 233
- ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY1.3 mi · 382
- SUSIE RAYOS MARMON ELEMENTARY1.3 mi · 507
Frequently asked questions
About LAVALAND ELEMENTARYHow large is LAVALAND ELEMENTARY?
LAVALAND ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 369 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does LAVALAND ELEMENTARY serve?
LAVALAND ELEMENTARY serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at LAVALAND ELEMENTARY?
Approximately 11.2:1 students per teacher at LAVALAND ELEMENTARY.
What is the racial breakdown of students at LAVALAND ELEMENTARY?
At LAVALAND ELEMENTARY, the student body is approximately 5% White, 89% Hispanic, 2% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is LAVALAND ELEMENTARY public or private?
LAVALAND ELEMENTARY is a public K-12 school, overseen by ALBUQUERQUE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.