LOS RANCHOS ELEMENTARY

LOS RANCHOS ELEMENTARY is a K-5 school of low-enrollment scale in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, operated by ALBUQUERQUE, instructing 194 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 32% leaner than the typical public school in New Mexico, which averages around 287 students.

LOS RANCHOS ELEMENTARY is one of 171 schools operated by ALBUQUERQUE, a district that caters to 74,041 students overall.

Looking at the student body, LOS RANCHOS ELEMENTARY lists that 81% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder reads as 13% White, 4% Native American. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, LOS RANCHOS ELEMENTARY has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.9:1, putting LOS RANCHOS ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Bernalillo County runs at roughly 90%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LOS RANCHOS 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 30.6%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Bernalillo County) shows that median household income runs about $69,473, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. LOS RANCHOS ELEMENTARY is one of 211 public schools in Bernalillo County (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students).

Nearest neighbor: NORTH VALLEY ACADEMY, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LOS RANCHOS ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, LOS RANCHOS ELEMENTARY comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.8%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 38%: 315 students in 2018 compared to 194 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 9% to 13% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 8.2:1 today.

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