SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY

As an intimate elementary school in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY serves 202 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within ALBUQUERQUE. Enrollment runs roughly 30% leaner than the state mean of about 287.

Within ALBUQUERQUE, which oversees 171 schools and 74,041 students, SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

Demographically, SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 55%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 25% White, 8% Native American, 5% Black, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, On paper, SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.1:1. The state averages around 12.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Bernalillo County (around 90%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.4%, the actual is 36.4%, a residual of +3.0 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Bernalillo County indicate median household income runs about $69,473, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY is one of 211 public schools in Bernalillo County (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students).

Nearest neighbor: MADISON MIDDLE, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 36.6%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY's enrollment has fell 36% since 2018, when it stood at 316 (now 202). White enrollment moved from 29% to 25% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.

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