NINA OTERO COMMUNITY SCHOOL

NINA OTERO COMMUNITY SCHOOL is one of the sprawling elementary-level communitys in SANTA FE, New Mexico, overseen by SANTA FE, with 629 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 119% above the typical public school in New Mexico, which averages around 287 students.

NINA OTERO COMMUNITY SCHOOL is one of 29 schools operated by SANTA FE, a district that instructs 11,182 students overall.

On the student-mix side, NINA OTERO COMMUNITY SCHOOL logs that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 4% White. By comparison, Santa Fe County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 100% of students at NINA OTERO COMMUNITY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Santa Fe County runs at roughly 84%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, NINA OTERO COMMUNITY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.4%; this one delivers 30.7%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Santa Fe County) reports that median household earnings sit near $79,071, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Santa Fe County's 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,719 students), NINA OTERO COMMUNITY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

CAPITAL HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NINA OTERO COMMUNITY SCHOOL. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), NINA OTERO COMMUNITY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 21.3%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NINA OTERO COMMUNITY SCHOOL has decreased 19%, going from 775 students in 2018 to 629 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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