PAJARITO ELEMENTARY

PAJARITO ELEMENTARY operates as a medium-sized primary school in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, overseen by ALBUQUERQUE. Current enrollment sits at 301 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.

Across the 171 schools in ALBUQUERQUE (74,041 students total), PAJARITO ELEMENTARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PAJARITO ELEMENTARY logs that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 6% White. The wider county runs roughly 49% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Bernalillo County's rate of about 90%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PAJARITO ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.7%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Bernalillo County indicate median household income runs about $69,473, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bernalillo County runs 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students), of which PAJARITO ELEMENTARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: POLK MIDDLE, around 1.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PAJARITO ELEMENTARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PAJARITO ELEMENTARY at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 22.6%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 33%: 448 students in 2018 compared to 301 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 7.8:1 today.

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