LOVINGTON 6TH GRADE ACADEMY

Located at 500 WEST JEFFERSON AVE, in LOVINGTON, New Mexico, LOVINGTON 6TH GRADE ACADEMY is a close-knit middle school that hosts 232 students (grade 6), run under LOVINGTON. Compared to the state average of about 335 students per school, that is 31% smaller than typical.

LOVINGTON comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 3,397 students; LOVINGTON 6TH GRADE ACADEMY is among them.

Looking at the student body, LOVINGTON 6TH GRADE ACADEMY reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (84%); the rest looks like 13% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Lea County's rate of about 73%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LOVINGTON 6TH GRADE ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.4%, the actual is 43.0%, a residual of +9.5 points.

In the surrounding community, Lea County reports that median household income runs about $68,015, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Lea County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,126 students), of which LOVINGTON 6TH GRADE ACADEMY is one.

The closest other public school is JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LOVINGTON 6TH GRADE ACADEMY. On composite proficiency, LOVINGTON 6TH GRADE ACADEMY comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 26.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LOVINGTON 6TH GRADE ACADEMY has shrank 11%, going from 260 students in 2018 to 232 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 21% to 13%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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