NORTH VALLEY ELEMENTARY

Located at 300 CASCADE AVE, in SAN MIGUEL, New Mexico, NORTH VALLEY ELEMENTARY is a mid-tier primary school that works with 338 students (grades pre-K through 6), run under GADSDEN.

GADSDEN comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 11,739 students; NORTH VALLEY ELEMENTARY is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, NORTH VALLEY ELEMENTARY records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%). The remainder reads as 3% White. By comparison, Doñan Ana County as a whole is about 68% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.9:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, NORTH VALLEY ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.4%, the actual is 49.1%, a residual of +15.7 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Doñan Ana County indicate the typical household earns roughly $56,848 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. NORTH VALLEY ELEMENTARY is one of 81 public schools in Doñan Ana County (combined enrollment of about 36,561 students).

LA MESA ON TRACK PREK CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around NORTH VALLEY ELEMENTARY. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), NORTH VALLEY ELEMENTARY ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 39.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NORTH VALLEY ELEMENTARY has edged down 5%, going from 357 students in 2018 to 338 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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