SIXTH GRADE ACADEMY

SIXTH GRADE ACADEMY operates as a micro-enrollment junior high in POJOAQUE, New Mexico, part of POJOAQUE. Current enrollment sits at 79 students spanning grade 6. By comparison, New Mexico's public schools average about 335 students each, so SIXTH GRADE ACADEMY sits 76% below that benchmark.

POJOAQUE runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,500 students. SIXTH GRADE ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, SIXTH GRADE ACADEMY logs that 71% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 24% Native American, 4% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at SIXTH GRADE ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Santa Fe County runs at roughly 84%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SIXTH GRADE ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.4%, the actual is 31.2%, a residual of -2.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Santa Fe County indicate the typical household earns roughly $79,071 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Santa Fe County's 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,719 students), SIXTH GRADE ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

POJOAQUE MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SIXTH GRADE ACADEMY comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 25.3%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 52%: 165 students in 2018 compared to 79 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 80% to 71% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, members of the SIXTH GRADE ACADEMY community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.