MITCHELL ELEMENTARY

Located at 10121 COMANCHE RD NE, in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, MITCHELL ELEMENTARY is a compact elementary school that educates 233 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of ALBUQUERQUE.

Within ALBUQUERQUE, which oversees 171 schools and 74,041 students, MITCHELL ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, MITCHELL ELEMENTARY shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 27% White, 12% Native American, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Bernalillo County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.2:1. The state averages around 12.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at MITCHELL ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Bernalillo County's rate of about 90%.

With demographic context factored in, MITCHELL 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 34.2%, a residual of +0.7 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Bernalillo County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,473 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MITCHELL ELEMENTARY is one of 211 public schools in Bernalillo County (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students).

Nearest neighbor: NORTHPOINT CHARTER SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MITCHELL ELEMENTARY comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 39.0%.

MITCHELL ELEMENTARY operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 41%: 396 students in 2018 compared to 233 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 41% to 51%. Class-load math has fell: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.

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