ONATE ELEMENTARY

Located at 12415 BRENTWOOD HILLS NE, in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, ONATE ELEMENTARY is a reasonably sized elementary campus that instructs 301 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within ALBUQUERQUE.

ALBUQUERQUE runs 171 schools in total, collectively educating 74,041 students. ONATE ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, ONATE ELEMENTARY logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 36% White, 7% multiracial, 2% Black, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.9:1, putting ONATE ELEMENTARY higher than the state norm the norm. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Bernalillo County's rate of about 90%.

After controlling for student poverty, ONATE ELEMENTARY sits in the top 10% of New Mexico schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 33.5%; actual is 60.3%, +26.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, 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%. In all, Bernalillo County runs 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students), of which ONATE ELEMENTARY is one.

The closest other public school is CHELWOOD ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ONATE ELEMENTARY ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 41.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. ONATE ELEMENTARY's enrollment has increased 23% since 2018, when it stood at 244 (now 301). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 41% to 51%.

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