PICACHO MIDDLE

PICACHO MIDDLE is one of the heavily attended 6-8 campuss in LAS CRUCES, New Mexico, part of LAS CRUCES, with 698 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New Mexico's public schools average about 335 students each, so PICACHO MIDDLE sits 108% bigger than that benchmark.

Within LAS CRUCES, which oversees 39 schools and 22,670 students, PICACHO MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, PICACHO MIDDLE lists that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 15% White. By comparison, Doñan Ana County as a whole is about 68% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.5:1, putting PICACHO MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PICACHO MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 27.2%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Doñan Ana County indicate the typical household earns roughly $56,848 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. In all, Doñan Ana County runs 81 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,561 students), of which PICACHO MIDDLE is one.

MAYFIELD HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PICACHO MIDDLE comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 32.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. PICACHO MIDDLE's enrollment has ticked down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 765 (now 698). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.