NEWCOMB MIDDLE

Located at US 491, in NEWCOMB, New Mexico, NEWCOMB MIDDLE is a micro-enrollment middle school that hosts 127 students (grades 6 through 8), part of CENTRAL. Compared to the state average of about 335 students per school, that is 62% smaller than typical.

Within CENTRAL, which oversees 16 schools and 4,539 students, NEWCOMB MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, NEWCOMB MIDDLE shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Native American (83%); the rest reads as 12% multiracial, 6% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.5:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

In the surrounding community, census data for San Juan County shows the typical household earns roughly $55,872 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. NEWCOMB MIDDLE is one of 62 public schools in San Juan County (combined enrollment of about 21,309 students).

NEWCOMB HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around NEWCOMB MIDDLE.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NEWCOMB MIDDLE has shrank 34%, going from 192 students in 2018 to 127 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.

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