MESA MIDDLE

Located at 1601 EAST BLAND ST, in ROSWELL, New Mexico, MESA MIDDLE is a mid-sized junior high that enrolls 350 students (grades 6 through 8), run under ROSWELL.

ROSWELL comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 9,184 students; MESA MIDDLE is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MESA MIDDLE shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%). Beyond that, the school lists 11% White. By comparison, Chaves County as a whole is about 58% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, MESA MIDDLE lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.5:1, putting MESA MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MESA 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 25.4%, a residual of -8.1 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Chaves County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $52,938 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 20%. Across Chaves County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,504 students), MESA MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: NANCY LOPEZ ELEMENTARY, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MESA MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, MESA MIDDLE comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.9%.

MESA MIDDLE operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MESA MIDDLE has shrank 20%, going from 437 students in 2018 to 350 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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