LEW WALLACE ELEMENTARY

LEW WALLACE ELEMENTARY, a modestly sized primary school in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, run under ALBUQUERQUE, enrolls 141 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 51% below the state mean of about 287.

ALBUQUERQUE comprises 171 schools with combined enrollment of 74,041 students; LEW WALLACE ELEMENTARY is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LEW WALLACE ELEMENTARY shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 75%. Other groups include 8% White, 7% Native American, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 49% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, LEW WALLACE ELEMENTARY reports 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.0:1. The state averages around 12.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Bernalillo County (around 90%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, LEW WALLACE ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.6%, the actual is 31.3%, a residual of -2.2 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Bernalillo County put the typical household earns roughly $69,473 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Bernalillo County runs 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students), of which LEW WALLACE ELEMENTARY is one.

The closest other public school is ABQ SIGN LANGUAGE ACADEMY, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LEW WALLACE ELEMENTARY at 2nd of 4; the average score across the group is 29.4%.

LEW WALLACE ELEMENTARY operates from an inner-city location.

Five-year trend. LEW WALLACE ELEMENTARY's enrollment has edged down 39% since 2018, when it stood at 231 (now 141). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 15% to 8%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 8.0:1 in 2025.

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