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NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY ACADEMY
Test scores
NM-MSSA + NM-ASR 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the NM-MSSA + NM-ASR, New Mexico's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Mexico schools, those numbers are about 44 and 27.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% typical for New Mexico schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Mexico's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY ACADEMY
NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY ACADEMY is a moderately sized combined-grade school in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, one of the schools within ALBUQUERQUE. The school works with 428 students in grades K through 12.
ALBUQUERQUE comprises 171 schools with combined enrollment of 74,041 students; NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY ACADEMY is among them.
In terms of who attends, NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY ACADEMY logs that Native American students make up the majority at 76%. The remainder looks like 13% Hispanic, 11% multiracial.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.1%, the actual is 33.2%, a residual of -2.9 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Bernalillo County) records that median household income runs about $69,473, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Bernalillo County runs 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students), of which NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY ACADEMY is one.
Nearest neighbor: ACE LEADERSHIP HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY ACADEMY comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 29.7%.
NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY ACADEMY operates from a downtown location. NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY ACADEMY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY ACADEMY has showed little movement, going from 434 students in 2018 to 428 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 6% to 13% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 7.4:1 in 2025.
On this page, the feed for NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY ACADEMY typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Bernalillo County at a glance
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