Enrollment
301
Elementary
DISTRICT 345 · STATE 287
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALBUQUERQUE·NCES 350006000097
PAJARITO ELEMENTARY
2701 DON FELIPE SW, ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87105 · (505) 877-9718 · Bernalillo County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL301 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 27% of New Mexico public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Mexico public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
7.8:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 12.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
301 students
DISTRICT 92% · STATE 90%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 70 | 23% |
| Kindergarten | 34 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 37 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 38 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 41 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 35 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (34) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (35).
Student demographics
18%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 55% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NM-MSSA + NM-ASR 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
31.4%
NM avg 44.2%
Math
9.5%
NM avg 27.2%
What this means: On the NM-MSSA + NM-ASR, New Mexico's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Mexico schools, those numbers are about 44 and 27.
Source: NM-MSSA + NM-ASR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
26.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.4%
based on NM schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for New Mexico schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Mexico's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like PAJARITO ELEMENTARY
PAJARITO ELEMENTARY's state test result (26.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAJARITO ELEMENTARY this school | 301 | 100.0% | 26.7% |
| EDWARD GONZALES ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 339 | 100.0% | 22.0% |
| ALAMEDA ELEMENTARY LAS CRUCES | 331 | 100.0% | 26.6% |
| LOS NINOS ELEMENTARY LAS VEGAS | 314 | 100.0% | 35.1% |
| ARMIJO ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 260 | 99.2% | N/A |
| ENOS GARCIA ELEMENTARY TAOS | 348 | 100.0% | 25.0% |
Matched among New Mexico elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where PAJARITO ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Mexico | In Bernalillo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.7% | #236 of 329 | #61 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 9.5% | #337 of 354 | #87 of 96 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.4% | #274 of 366 | #69 of 101 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 301 | #231 of 490 | #62 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 7.8:1 | #7 of 318 | #2 of 97 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 18.0% | #278 of 334 | #86 of 97 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #33 of 393 | #19 of 101 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -32.8% | #77 of 287 | #38 of 88 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
301
-67 (-18%) vs 2020
-49% since 1990-91, when it was 596
Student : Teacher
7.8:1
was 10.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 301 | 38.9 | 7.8:1 | 100% (301) |
| 2023-24 | 336 | 29.8 | 11.3:1 | 100% (335) |
| 2022-23 | 347 | 36.4 | 9.6:1 | 100% (347) |
| 2020-21 | 368 | 36 | 10.2:1 | 100% (368) |
| 2017-18 | 448 | 30.3 | 14.8:1 | 100% (448) |
| 2015-16 | 502 | 37 | 13.6:1 | 100% (502) |
| 2010-11 | 653 | 47 | 13.9:1 | 85% (553) |
| 2000-01 | 536 | 39 | 13.7:1 | 84% (452) |
| 1990-91 | 596 | 33 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PAJARITO ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students down 33% (448 to 301); teachers up 28% (30.3 to 38.9).
About PAJARITO ELEMENTARY
PAJARITO ELEMENTARY is a medium-sized elementary school with an address in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico. The latest federal count shows 301 students in pre-K through 6.
ALBUQUERQUE has a total of 172 schools and 74,800 students, PAJARITO ELEMENTARY among them.
Most students at PAJARITO ELEMENTARY are Hispanic: 90% of enrollment. The remaining students are 6% White. Census figures show Bernalillo County is about 49% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at PAJARITO ELEMENTARY belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 18%.
PAJARITO ELEMENTARY employs 38.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 7.8:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in New Mexico is 12.9:1, higher than at this school. PAJARITO ELEMENTARY's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 100%. That is higher than the 90% average for public schools in Bernalillo County.
The allk12 Grade for PAJARITO ELEMENTARY is C. Compared with New Mexico public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 27% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 33.4% for PAJARITO ELEMENTARY. The school posts 26.7%, 6.7 points below the prediction.
Among Bernalillo County residents, median household income is about $69,473, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. PAJARITO ELEMENTARY is one of 211 public schools in Bernalillo County, which together enroll about 85,724 students.
POLK MIDDLE is the public school closest to PAJARITO ELEMENTARY, about 1.7 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 22.6%; PAJARITO ELEMENTARY's is 26.7%, ranking 3rd of 8.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 368 to 301. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio fell from 10.2:1 to 7.8:1.
Discussions about PAJARITO ELEMENTARY may include school safety, transportation, and start times. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Bernalillo County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
673,930
Census ACS
Median income
$69,473
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
211
85,724 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ALBUQUERQUE
- VOLCANO VISTA HIGHHigh · 2,089 students
- ATRISCO HERITAGE ACADEMY HSHigh · 1,930 students
- LA CUEVA HIGHHigh · 1,826 students
- SANDIA HIGHHigh · 1,618 students
- ELDORADO HIGHCombined · 1,579 students
- ALBUQUERQUE HIGHHigh · 1,568 students
Other schools in ALBUQUERQUE
- VOLCANO VISTA HIGHHigh · 2,089 students
- ATRISCO HERITAGE ACADEMY HSHigh · 1,930 students
- LA CUEVA HIGHHigh · 1,826 students
- SANDIA HIGHHigh · 1,618 students
- ELDORADO HIGHCombined · 1,579 students
- ALBUQUERQUE HIGHHigh · 1,568 students
Nearby schools
- POLK MIDDLE1.7 mi · 222
- ADOBE ACRES ELEMENTARY2.1 mi · 303
- NAVAJO ELEMENTARY2.1 mi · 344
- EL CAMINO REAL ACADEMY2.2 mi · 342
- HARRISON MIDDLE2.2 mi · 265
- BARCELONA ELEMENTARY2.3 mi · 202
Frequently asked questions
About PAJARITO ELEMENTARYHow large is PAJARITO ELEMENTARY?
PAJARITO ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 301 students in grades PK-06.
Is PAJARITO ELEMENTARY an elementary, middle, or high school?
PAJARITO ELEMENTARY is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many teachers does PAJARITO ELEMENTARY have?
PAJARITO ELEMENTARY employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 7.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PAJARITO ELEMENTARY?
At PAJARITO ELEMENTARY, the student body is approximately 6% White, 90% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees PAJARITO ELEMENTARY?
PAJARITO ELEMENTARY is overseen by ALBUQUERQUE in Bernalillo County.
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