MISSOURI AVE ELEMENTARY

MISSOURI AVE ELEMENTARY operates as a medium-sized K-5 school in ROSWELL, New Mexico, one of the schools within ROSWELL. Current enrollment sits at 322 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

ROSWELL runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 9,184 students. MISSOURI AVE ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, MISSOURI AVE ELEMENTARY logs that nearly all students (84%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 11% White, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 58% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.9:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MISSOURI AVE ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.3%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Chaves County put median household earnings sit near $52,938, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 20%. In all, Chaves County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,504 students), of which MISSOURI AVE ELEMENTARY is one.

VALLEY VIEW ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MISSOURI AVE ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 33.9%.

MISSOURI AVE ELEMENTARY operates from a town-based location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MISSOURI AVE ELEMENTARY has contracted 5%, going from 339 students in 2018 to 322 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 76% to 84% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 in 2025.

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