Enrollment
202
Elementary
DISTRICT 345 · STATE 287
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALBUQUERQUE·NCES 350006000110
SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY
9110 SHOSHONE RD NE, ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87111 · (505) 291-6842 · Bernalillo County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL202 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 55% of New Mexico public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
11.1:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 12.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
202 students
DISTRICT 92% · 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 | 32 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 26 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 32 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 40 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 35 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 37 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (32) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (37).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
41.1%
NM avg 44.2%
Math
23.2%
NM avg 27.2%
What this means: On the NM-MSSA + NM-ASR, New Mexico's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
36.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.4%
based on NM schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for New Mexico schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Mexico's top nor bottom 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 SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY
SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY's state test result (36.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY this school | 202 | 100.0% | 36.4% |
| YUCCA ELEMENTARY ALAMOGORDO | 179 | 100.0% | 39.7% |
| BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY ALAMOGORDO | 222 | 100.0% | 51.4% |
| MATHESON PARK ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 159 | 100.0% | 35.4% |
| CHELWOOD ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 309 | 99.4% | 21.1% |
| CORAL COMMUNITY CHARTER ALBUQUERQUE | 241 | 100.0% | 56.3% |
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 SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Mexico | In Bernalillo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.4% | #142 of 329 | #36 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.2% | #189 of 354 | #46 of 96 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.1% | #185 of 366 | #44 of 101 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 202 | #331 of 490 | #97 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.1:1 | #61 of 318 | #28 of 97 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.5% | #46 of 334 | #22 of 97 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #38 of 393 | #24 of 101 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -36.1% | #60 of 287 | #35 of 88 |
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
202
-56 (-22%) vs 2020
-60% since 1990-91, when it was 503
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
was 11.7:1
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 | 202 | 18.2 | 11.1:1 | 100% (202) |
| 2023-24 | 226 | 17.5 | 12.9:1 | 100% (226) |
| 2022-23 | 260 | 19.7 | 13.2:1 | 100% (260) |
| 2020-21 | 258 | 22 | 11.7:1 | 100% (258) |
| 2017-18 | 316 | 20.7 | 15.3:1 | 100% (315) |
| 2015-16 | 340 | 22 | 15.4:1 | 69% (234) |
| 2010-11 | 388 | 26 | 14.9:1 | 64% (250) |
| 2000-01 | 475 | 30 | 15.8:1 | 41% (196) |
| 1990-91 | 503 | 25 | 20.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students down 36% (316 to 202); teachers down 12% (20.7 to 18.2).
About SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY
As a small elementary school, SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY serves students in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico. It had 202 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in New Mexico average about 287 students, which makes this school 30% below average.
SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY belongs to ALBUQUERQUE, a district of 172 schools and 74,800 students.
The largest group at SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY is Hispanic students, at 55%. The remaining students are 25% White, 8% Native American, 5% Black, and 4% multiracial. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY scores 62%.
There are 18.2 full-time-equivalent teachers at SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY, giving a ratio of 11.1:1. Elementary schools in New Mexico average 12.9:1, 1.8 more students per teacher than here. A total of 202 students, or 100%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 90% average for public schools in Bernalillo County.
On the allk12 Grade, SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY lands at B, ahead of 55% of New Mexico public elementary schools.
SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY sits between the top and bottom 10% of New Mexico schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 36.4% and a predicted 33.4%.
Looking at the county, Bernalillo County, median household income comes to about $69,473, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. The county's public schools total 211, with about 85,724 students.
SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY's closest public school neighbor is MADISON MIDDLE, about 0.4 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 7 schools in the immediate area with test results, SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY ranks 4th on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY had a net loss of 56 students, or 22%.
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Bernalillo County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
673,930
Census ACS
Median income
$69,473
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
211
85,724 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ALBUQUERQUE
- VOLCANO VISTA HIGHHigh · 2,089 students
- ATRISCO HERITAGE ACADEMY HSHigh · 1,930 students
- LA CUEVA HIGHHigh · 1,826 students
- SANDIA HIGHHigh · 1,618 students
- ELDORADO HIGHCombined · 1,579 students
- ALBUQUERQUE HIGHHigh · 1,568 students
Other schools in ALBUQUERQUE
- VOLCANO VISTA HIGHHigh · 2,089 students
- ATRISCO HERITAGE ACADEMY HSHigh · 1,930 students
- LA CUEVA HIGHHigh · 1,826 students
- SANDIA HIGHHigh · 1,618 students
- ELDORADO HIGHCombined · 1,579 students
- ALBUQUERQUE HIGHHigh · 1,568 students
Nearby schools
- MADISON MIDDLE0.4 mi · 532
- RENAISSANCE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL0.9 mi · 124
- NORTHPOINT CHARTER SCHOOL0.9 mi · 144
- MITCHELL ELEMENTARY0.9 mi · 233
- SANDIA HIGH1.0 mi · 1,618
- JANET KAHN FINE ARTS ACADEMY1.1 mi · 389
Frequently asked questions
About SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARYWhat is the total enrollment at SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY?
SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 202 students in grades PK-05.
Is SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY an elementary, middle, or high school?
SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY have?
SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY employs 18 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.1:1.
What is the student diversity at SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY?
Student demographics at SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY are roughly 25% White, 55% Hispanic, 5% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY in?
SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY is part of ALBUQUERQUE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.