PINON ELEMENTARY

PINON ELEMENTARY operates as a middle-of-the-pack primary school in WHITE ROCK, New Mexico, run under LOS ALAMOS. Current enrollment sits at 350 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 287 students per school, that is 22% larger than typical.

LOS ALAMOS comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,971 students; PINON ELEMENTARY is among them.

Looking at the student body, PINON ELEMENTARY logs that 63% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 26% Hispanic, 9% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.9:1, putting PINON ELEMENTARY higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 6% of students at PINON ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PINON ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 56.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 68.3%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Los Alamos County indicate median household earnings sit near $147,139, roughly 70% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PINON ELEMENTARY is one of 8 public schools in Los Alamos County (combined enrollment of about 3,971 students).

CHAMISA ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, PINON ELEMENTARY comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 67.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 356 students in 2018 compared to 350 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 71% to 63% over that span.

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