SANTO DOMINGO MIDDLE

SANTO DOMINGO MIDDLE is one of the tiny 6-8 campuss in SANTO DOMINGO PUEBLO, New Mexico, run under BERNALILLO, with 74 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 78% below the typical public school in New Mexico, which averages around 335 students.

Within BERNALILLO, which oversees 11 schools and 2,761 students, SANTO DOMINGO MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

On demographics, SANTO DOMINGO MIDDLE lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Native American (92%). The remainder comes out to 8% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, SANTO DOMINGO MIDDLE has 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.5:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SANTO DOMINGO MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.1%.

Around the school, Sandoval County reports that median household earnings sit near $86,636, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Sandoval County's 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,445 students), SANTO DOMINGO MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

SANTO DOMINGO ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, SANTO DOMINGO MIDDLE comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.6%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. SANTO DOMINGO MIDDLE's enrollment has fell 13% since 2018, when it stood at 85 (now 74). Class-load math has narrowed: from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 8.7:1 in 2025.

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