RUIDOSO MIDDLE

Located at 123 WARRIOR DR, in RUIDOSO, New Mexico, RUIDOSO MIDDLE is a mid-tier middle school that instructs 373 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within RUIDOSO.

Within RUIDOSO, which oversees 4 schools and 1,788 students, RUIDOSO MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

Demographically, RUIDOSO MIDDLE reports that 59% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 24% White, 12% Native American, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Lincoln County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, RUIDOSO MIDDLE has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.5:1, putting RUIDOSO 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. That share is noticeably above Lincoln County's rate of about 85%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), RUIDOSO MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.5%, the actual is 41.8%, a residual of +8.4 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Lincoln County indicate median household earnings sit near $53,303, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Lincoln County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,601 students), of which RUIDOSO MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is RUIDOSO HIGH, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around RUIDOSO MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, RUIDOSO MIDDLE comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 40.7%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RUIDOSO MIDDLE has fell 20%, going from 467 students in 2018 to 373 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 48% to 59% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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