ROUTE 66 ELEMENTARY

As a medium-sized primary school in MORIARTY, New Mexico, ROUTE 66 ELEMENTARY enrolls 278 students from grades K through 5, operated by MORIARTY-EDGEWOOD.

MORIARTY-EDGEWOOD comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,361 students; ROUTE 66 ELEMENTARY is among them.

Looking at the student body, ROUTE 66 ELEMENTARY lists that 48% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 46% White, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Bernalillo County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.9:1, putting ROUTE 66 ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at ROUTE 66 ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Bernalillo County (around 90%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ROUTE 66 ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.5%, the actual is 32.6%, a residual of -0.9 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Bernalillo County indicate median household earnings sit near $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 ROUTE 66 ELEMENTARY is one.

The closest other public school is PECOS CYBER ACADEMY, roughly 2.4 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ROUTE 66 ELEMENTARY at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 53.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 22%: 355 students in 2018 compared to 278 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 54% to 46% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.

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