MCKINLEY MIDDLE

MCKINLEY MIDDLE, a moderately sized middle school in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, operated by ALBUQUERQUE, enrolls 434 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 30% bigger than the state mean of about 335.

ALBUQUERQUE comprises 171 schools with combined enrollment of 74,041 students; MCKINLEY MIDDLE is among them.

On the student-mix side, MCKINLEY MIDDLE lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%; the rest breaks down as 16% Native American, 8% White, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

On the income-and-resources front, MCKINLEY MIDDLE reports 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.5:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at MCKINLEY MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Bernalillo County's rate of about 90%.

With demographic context factored in, MCKINLEY MIDDLE falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 33.5%; this one comes in at 17.5%, -16.0 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Bernalillo County) records that median household earnings sit near $69,473, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Bernalillo County's 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students), MCKINLEY MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

DESERT WILLOW FAMILY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MCKINLEY MIDDLE comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 29.6%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. MCKINLEY MIDDLE's enrollment has rose 4% since 2018, when it stood at 416 (now 434). Class-load math has tightened: from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.