SNELL MIDDLE

Set in BAYARD, New Mexico, SNELL MIDDLE is a low-enrollment middle school, one of the schools within COBRE. It serves 201 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New Mexico's public schools average about 335 students each, so SNELL MIDDLE sits 40% below that benchmark.

COBRE comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 939 students; SNELL MIDDLE is among them.

On demographics, SNELL MIDDLE logs that nearly all students (92%) are Hispanic; the rest looks like 6% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.5:1, putting SNELL MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at SNELL MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SNELL MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.4%; this one delivers 27.1%.

Around the school, census data for Grant County shows the typical household earns roughly $44,958 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Grant County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,240 students), of which SNELL MIDDLE is one.

BAYARD ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SNELL MIDDLE comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 44.3%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SNELL MIDDLE has ticked up 14%, going from 176 students in 2018 to 201 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 10% to 6%. Class-load math has widened: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.

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