NEW AMERICA SCHOOL

NEW AMERICA SCHOOL is one of the very small 9-12 campuss in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, operated by ALBUQUERQUE, with 131 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 71% below the typical public school in New Mexico, which averages around 450 students.

NEW AMERICA SCHOOL is one of 171 schools operated by ALBUQUERQUE, a district that instructs 74,041 students overall.

On the student-mix side, NEW AMERICA SCHOOL logs that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.9:1 average. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Bernalillo County runs at roughly 90%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, census data for Bernalillo County shows the typical household earns roughly $69,473 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. NEW AMERICA SCHOOL is one of 211 public schools in Bernalillo County (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students).

Nearest neighbor: ERNIE PYLE MIDDLE, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area. NEW AMERICA SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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