LOS PUENTES CHARTER

LOS PUENTES CHARTER, a very small secondary school in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, one of the schools within ALBUQUERQUE, hosts 139 students, covering grades 7 through 12. By comparison, New Mexico's public schools average about 450 students each, so LOS PUENTES CHARTER sits 69% below that benchmark.

ALBUQUERQUE comprises 171 schools with combined enrollment of 74,041 students; LOS PUENTES CHARTER is among them.

In terms of who attends, LOS PUENTES CHARTER reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment; the rest looks like 12% White, 9% multiracial, 6% Native American. By comparison, Bernalillo County as a whole is about 49% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, LOS PUENTES CHARTER reports 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. The state averages around 22.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 20% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Bernalillo County runs at roughly 90%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

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 the poverty rate sits near 11%. LOS PUENTES CHARTER is one of 211 public schools in Bernalillo County (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students).

GARFIELD MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

LOS PUENTES CHARTER operates from an inner-city location. LOS PUENTES CHARTER operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. LOS PUENTES CHARTER's enrollment has shrank 27% since 2018, when it stood at 190 (now 139). Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 78% to 73%.

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