Enrollment
344
Elementary
DISTRICT 345 · STATE 287
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALBUQUERQUE·NCES 350006000093
NAVAJO ELEMENTARY
2936 HUGHES RD SW, ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87105 · (505) 873-8512 · Bernalillo County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL344 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 3% of New Mexico public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Mexico public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 12.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
343 students
DISTRICT 92% · STATE 90%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 18 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 48 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 66 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (48) is 27% smaller than its 5th grade class (66).
Student demographics
11%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 55% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NM-MSSA + NM-ASR 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
21.1%
NM avg 44.2%
Math
6.0%
NM avg 27.2%
What this means: On the NM-MSSA + NM-ASR, New Mexico's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 6 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Mexico schools, those numbers are about 44 and 27.
Source: NM-MSSA + NM-ASR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NM schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
18.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.5%
based on NM schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 33% typical for New Mexico schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like NAVAJO ELEMENTARY
NAVAJO ELEMENTARY's state test result (18.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NAVAJO ELEMENTARY this school | 344 | 99.7% | 18.2% |
| NORTH VALLEY ELEMENTARY SAN MIGUEL | 338 | 100.0% | 49.1% |
| BOOKER T. WASHINGTON LAS CRUCES | 361 | 100.0% | 24.0% |
| EAST SAN JOSE ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 317 | 99.7% | 26.9% |
| MAC ARTHUR ELEMENTARY LAS CRUCES | 335 | 100.0% | 17.4% |
| LA UNION ELEMENTARY ANTHONY | 340 | 100.0% | 47.3% |
Matched among New Mexico elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where NAVAJO ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Mexico | In Bernalillo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.2% | #320 of 329 | #88 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 6.0% | #350 of 354 | #94 of 96 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.1% | #340 of 366 | #89 of 101 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 344 | #177 of 490 | #43 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #179 of 318 | #73 of 97 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 11.1% | #307 of 334 | #93 of 97 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.7% | #221 of 393 | #47 of 101 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -38.6% | #44 of 287 | #28 of 88 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
344
-33 (-9%) vs 2020
-46% since 1990-91, when it was 632
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 13.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 344 | 25.5 | 13.5:1 | 100% (343) |
| 2023-24 | 357 | 28.5 | 12.5:1 | 100% (357) |
| 2022-23 | 359 | 27.5 | 13.1:1 | 100% (359) |
| 2020-21 | 377 | 29 | 13.0:1 | 100% (377) |
| 2017-18 | 560 | 38.1 | 14.7:1 | 100% (560) |
| 2015-16 | 594 | 36 | 16.5:1 | 100% (594) |
| 2010-11 | 675 | 47 | 14.4:1 | 100% (672) |
| 2000-01 | 495 | 33 | 15.0:1 | 93% (461) |
| 1990-91 | 632 | 34 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NAVAJO ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students down 39% (560 to 344); teachers down 33% (38.1 to 25.5).
About NAVAJO ELEMENTARY
At 2936 HUGHES RD SW in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, NAVAJO ELEMENTARY operates as a medium-sized elementary school. It serves 344 students in pre-K through 5.
The ALBUQUERQUE system has 172 schools and 74,800 students.
At NAVAJO ELEMENTARY, Hispanic students make up 94% of the student body. After that, the student body is 4% White. Among all residents of Bernalillo County, the Hispanic share is about 49%. By the diversity index, NAVAJO ELEMENTARY comes in at 11%.
Teacher staffing is 25.5 full-time equivalents, or about 13.5 students per teacher. Elementary schools in New Mexico have a similar average ratio of 12.9:1. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 100%. Across public schools in Bernalillo County, the average is 90%.
The allk12 Grade for NAVAJO ELEMENTARY is F. Compared with New Mexico public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 3% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Compared with New Mexico schools that have similar shares of low-income students, NAVAJO ELEMENTARY scores 15.3 points lower than predicted. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 18.2%; the prediction is 33.5%.
In the county around the school, Bernalillo County, median household income is about $69,473, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. NAVAJO ELEMENTARY is among the 211 public schools in Bernalillo County.
The school nearest to NAVAJO ELEMENTARY is SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY, at a distance of about 0.2 miles. Within five miles of NAVAJO ELEMENTARY, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, NAVAJO ELEMENTARY ranks 7th of 7 on average proficiency.
Federal data place NAVAJO ELEMENTARY in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
NAVAJO ELEMENTARY had 377 students in 2020-21 and 344 in 2024-25, a 9% decrease.
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Bernalillo County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
673,930
Census ACS
Median income
$69,473
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
211
85,724 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ALBUQUERQUE
- VOLCANO VISTA HIGHHigh · 2,089 students
- ATRISCO HERITAGE ACADEMY HSHigh · 1,930 students
- LA CUEVA HIGHHigh · 1,826 students
- SANDIA HIGHHigh · 1,618 students
- ELDORADO HIGHCombined · 1,579 students
- ALBUQUERQUE HIGHHigh · 1,568 students
Other schools in ALBUQUERQUE
- VOLCANO VISTA HIGHHigh · 2,089 students
- ATRISCO HERITAGE ACADEMY HSHigh · 1,930 students
- LA CUEVA HIGHHigh · 1,826 students
- SANDIA HIGHHigh · 1,618 students
- ELDORADO HIGHCombined · 1,579 students
- ALBUQUERQUE HIGHHigh · 1,568 students
Other Navajo Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 3 states are named Navajo Elementary. NAVAJO ELEMENTARY is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- NAVAJO ELEMENTARYNAVAJO, NM · 310 students
- Navajo Elementary SchoolSCOTTSDALE, AZ · 473 students
- Navajo Elementary SchoolAltus, OK · 280 students
Nearby schools
- SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY0.2 mi · 604
- ROBERT F. KENNEDY CHARTER0.8 mi · 314
- BARCELONA ELEMENTARY1.0 mi · 202
- RUDOLFO ANAYA ELEMENTARY1.3 mi · 592
- RIO GRANDE HIGH1.5 mi · 1,475
- SOLARE COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL1.5 mi · 314
Frequently asked questions
About NAVAJO ELEMENTARYWhat is the total enrollment at NAVAJO ELEMENTARY?
NAVAJO ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 344 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does NAVAJO ELEMENTARY serve?
NAVAJO ELEMENTARY serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at NAVAJO ELEMENTARY?
Approximately 13.5:1 students per teacher at NAVAJO ELEMENTARY.
How diverse is NAVAJO ELEMENTARY?
NAVAJO ELEMENTARY reports a student body of 4% White, 94% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian.
What district is NAVAJO ELEMENTARY in?
NAVAJO ELEMENTARY is part of ALBUQUERQUE.
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