MANZANO MESA ELEMENTARY

Located at 801 ELIZABETH ST SE, in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, MANZANO MESA ELEMENTARY is a high-enrollment elementary school that serves 507 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within ALBUQUERQUE. By comparison, New Mexico's public schools average about 287 students each, so MANZANO MESA ELEMENTARY sits 77% bigger than that benchmark.

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

On demographics, MANZANO MESA ELEMENTARY logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 53%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 21% White, 12% Asian, 5% multiracial, 4% Native American. Compared to Bernalillo County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, MANZANO MESA ELEMENTARY has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 100% 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 meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MANZANO MESA ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.5%, the actual is 41.6%, a residual of +8.1 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Bernalillo County indicate median household earnings sit near $69,473, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MANZANO MESA ELEMENTARY is one of 211 public schools in Bernalillo County (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students).

TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MANZANO MESA ELEMENTARY comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 27.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. MANZANO MESA ELEMENTARY's enrollment has shrank 29% since 2018, when it stood at 717 (now 507). White enrollment moved from 26% to 21% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.