LOVINGTON FRESHMAN ACADEMY

LOVINGTON FRESHMAN ACADEMY, a tight-knit secondary school in LOVINGTON, New Mexico, overseen by LOVINGTON, caters to 267 students, covering grade 9. By comparison, New Mexico's public schools average about 450 students each, so LOVINGTON FRESHMAN ACADEMY sits 41% smaller than that benchmark.

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

Demographically, LOVINGTON FRESHMAN ACADEMY logs that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 14% White. By comparison, Lea County as a whole is about 63% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.9:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at LOVINGTON FRESHMAN ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Lea County's rate of about 73%.

Around the school, census data for Lea County shows median household earnings sit near $68,015, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Lea County's 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,126 students), LOVINGTON FRESHMAN ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LOVINGTON HIGH, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LOVINGTON FRESHMAN ACADEMY.

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

Over the past 7-year window. LOVINGTON FRESHMAN ACADEMY's enrollment has grew 6% since 2018, when it stood at 251 (now 267). Over the same period, the White share declined from 24% to 14%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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