MEMORIAL MIDDLE

MEMORIAL MIDDLE is a 6-8 campus of intimate scale in LAS VEGAS, New Mexico, overseen by LAS VEGAS CITY, enrolling 167 students in grades 7 through 8. By comparison, New Mexico's public schools average about 335 students each, so MEMORIAL MIDDLE sits 50% smaller than that benchmark.

MEMORIAL MIDDLE is one of 5 schools operated by LAS VEGAS CITY, a district that instructs 1,121 students overall.

In terms of who attends, MEMORIAL MIDDLE reports that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 7% White, 3% Native American. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. The state averages around 12.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at MEMORIAL MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MEMORIAL MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.4%, the actual is 23.8%, a residual of -9.6 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for San Miguel County put the typical household earns roughly $49,431 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 18%. In all, San Miguel County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,156 students), of which MEMORIAL MIDDLE is one.

ROBERTSON HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MEMORIAL MIDDLE comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 24.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 31%: 242 students in 2018 compared to 167 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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