Enrollment
284
Elementary
DISTRICT 262 · STATE 287
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALAMOGORDO·NCES 350003000013
SIERRA ELEMENTARY
2211 PUERTO RICO AVE, ALAMOGORDO, NM 88310 · (575) 812-5800 · Otero County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL284 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 88% of New Mexico public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Mexico public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.2:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 12.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
283 students
DISTRICT 100% · STATE 90%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 40 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 51 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 43 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (40) is 22% smaller than its 5th grade class (51).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 55% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NM-MSSA + NM-ASR 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
58.2%
NM avg 44.2%
Math
47.0%
NM avg 27.2%
What this means: On the NM-MSSA + NM-ASR, New Mexico's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Mexico schools, those numbers are about 44 and 27.
Source: NM-MSSA + NM-ASR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NM schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
53.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.5%
based on NM schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 33% typical for New Mexico schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in New Mexico's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like SIERRA ELEMENTARY
SIERRA ELEMENTARY's state test result (53.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIERRA ELEMENTARY this school | 284 | 99.6% | 53.3% |
| COMANCHE ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 325 | 99.4% | 39.2% |
| WHITE SANDS ELEMENTARY LAS CRUCES | 270 | 100.0% | 62.5% |
| BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY ALAMOGORDO | 222 | 100.0% | 51.4% |
| MCCOLLUM ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 302 | 99.0% | 25.8% |
| ZIA ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 236 | 100.0% | 43.0% |
Matched among New Mexico elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where SIERRA ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Mexico | In Otero County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.3% | #36 of 329 | #2 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #43 of 354 | #2 of 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.2% | #55 of 366 | #3 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 284 | #247 of 490 | #5 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.2:1 | #291 of 318 | #6 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.2% | #44 of 334 | #4 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.6% | #234 of 393 | #9 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.7% | #133 of 287 | #5 of 8 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
284
-11 (-4%) vs 2020
-45% since 1990-91, when it was 519
Student : Teacher
17.2:1
was 14.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 284 | 16.5 | 17.2:1 | 100% (283) |
| 2023-24 | 293 | 18 | 16.3:1 | 40% (116) |
| 2022-23 | 301 | 17.5 | 17.2:1 | 41% (124) |
| 2020-21 | 295 | 21 | 14.1:1 | 100% (294) |
| 2017-18 | 372 | 21.4 | 17.4:1 | 57% (213) |
| 2015-16 | 357 | 20 | 17.9:1 | 58% (208) |
| 2010-11 | 352 | 21 | 16.8:1 | 58% (203) |
| 2000-01 | 332 | 22 | 15.1:1 | 62% (207) |
| 1990-91 | 519 | 25 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SIERRA ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (372 to 284); teachers down 23% (21.4 to 16.5).
About SIERRA ELEMENTARY
SIERRA ELEMENTARY is a medium-sized elementary school. Its address is in ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico. Grades offered run from kindergarten through 5, with 284 students enrolled.
The ALAMOGORDO system has 14 schools and 5,227 students.
SIERRA ELEMENTARY's enrollment has no majority group, and Hispanic students are the largest at 47%. After that, the student body is 37% White, 11% multiracial, and 4% Black. By the diversity index, SIERRA ELEMENTARY comes in at 63%.
SIERRA ELEMENTARY operates with 16.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 17.2:1. That ratio is over the 12.9:1 average for elementary schools in New Mexico. SIERRA ELEMENTARY reports 100% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
The allk12 Grade for SIERRA ELEMENTARY is A. Compared with New Mexico public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 88% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
In New Mexico, SIERRA ELEMENTARY is one of the top 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate on state tests of 53.3% compared with a predicted 33.5%.
Federal survey data for Otero County show that median household income is about $55,876, roughly 23% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 15%. SIERRA ELEMENTARY is among the 26 public schools in Otero County.
The nearest other public school, NM SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED, is about 0.6 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of SIERRA ELEMENTARY. By average proficiency, SIERRA ELEMENTARY is 1st among 6 schools close by.
The school's federal locale classification is Town: Remote.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, SIERRA ELEMENTARY went from 295 students to 284. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.1:1 in 2020-21 to 17.2:1 in 2024-25.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss science fairs, picture day, and bus routes at SIERRA ELEMENTARY. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Otero County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
68,816
Census ACS
Median income
$55,876
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
26
7,639 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ALAMOGORDO
- ALAMOGORDO HIGHHigh · 1,440 students
- HOLLOMAN ELEMENTARYElementary · 517 students
- CHAPARRAL MIDDLEMiddle · 513 students
- MOUNTAIN VIEW MIDDLEMiddle · 479 students
- DESERT STAR ELEMENTARYElementary · 466 students
- SUNSET HILLS ELEMENTARYElementary · 436 students
Other schools in ALAMOGORDO
- ALAMOGORDO HIGHHigh · 1,440 students
- CHAPARRAL MIDDLEMiddle · 513 students
- MOUNTAIN VIEW MIDDLEMiddle · 479 students
- DESERT STAR ELEMENTARYElementary · 466 students
- SUNSET HILLS ELEMENTARYElementary · 436 students
- BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARYElementary · 222 students
Other Sierra Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 3 states are named Sierra Elementary. SIERRA ELEMENTARY is the 5th largest of the 6.
- SIERRA ELEMENTARYT OR C, NM · 184 students
- Sierra ElementaryLancaster, CA · 707 students
- Sierra Elementary SchoolARVADA, CO · 493 students
- Sierra ElementaryRocklin, CA · 445 students
- Sierra ElementaryPlacerville, CA · 402 students
Nearby schools
- NM SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED0.6 mi · 45
- NORTH ELEMENTARY1.0 mi · 159
- CHAPARRAL MIDDLE1.1 mi · 513
- STEPPING STONES PRESCHOOL1.1 mi · 114
- BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY1.3 mi · 222
- SUNSET HILLS ELEMENTARY1.6 mi · 436
Frequently asked questions
About SIERRA ELEMENTARYHow many students attend SIERRA ELEMENTARY?
SIERRA ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 284 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does SIERRA ELEMENTARY serve?
SIERRA ELEMENTARY serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SIERRA ELEMENTARY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SIERRA ELEMENTARY is approximately 17.2:1 (17 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at SIERRA ELEMENTARY?
At SIERRA ELEMENTARY, the student body is approximately 37% White, 47% Hispanic, 4% Black, 1% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Is SIERRA ELEMENTARY public or private?
SIERRA ELEMENTARY is a public K-12 school, overseen by ALAMOGORDO.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.