PECOS ELEMENTARY

PECOS ELEMENTARY operates as an average-sized elementary campus in ROSWELL, New Mexico, overseen by ROSWELL. Current enrollment sits at 255 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

ROSWELL runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 9,184 students. PECOS ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

On demographics, PECOS ELEMENTARY records that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder is composed of 6% White, 2% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 58%.

On the resource side, Roughly 99% of students at PECOS ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PECOS ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.3%.

Zooming out to the county, Chaves County reports that median household income runs about $52,938, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 20% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PECOS ELEMENTARY is one of 33 public schools in Chaves County (combined enrollment of about 10,504 students).

ROSWELL HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PECOS ELEMENTARY at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 31.8%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 33%: 380 students in 2018 compared to 255 in 2025.

On this page, members of the PECOS ELEMENTARY community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.