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Alumni: what's one memory from SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
604
High
DISTRICT 678 · STATE 450
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALBUQUERQUE·NCES 350006000809
SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY
3426 BLAKE ROAD SW, ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87105 · (505) 452-3132 · Bernalillo County
GRADES 06–12HIGH21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL604 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 8% of New Mexico public schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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 schools
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 22.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
601 students
DISTRICT 92% · STATE 90%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 96 | 16% |
| Grade 7 | 96 | 16% |
| Grade 8 | 91 | 15% |
| Grade 9 | 86 | 14% |
| Grade 10 | 86 | 14% |
| Grade 11 | 70 | 12% |
| Grade 12 | 79 | 13% |
Student demographics
43%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
35.2%
NM avg 44.2%
Math
15.0%
NM avg 27.2%
What this means: On the NM-MSSA + NM-ASR, New Mexico's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 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
27.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.5%
based on NM schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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 SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY
SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY's state test result (27.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY this school | 604 | 99.5% | 27.1% |
| CLIFF HIGH CLIFF | 95 | 100.0% | 54.6% |
| QUEMADO HIGH QUEMADO | 81 | 100.0% | 65.3% |
| MELROSE HIGH MELROSE | 79 | 98.7% | N/A |
| ANIMAS 7-12 SCHOOL ANIMAS | 90 | 100.0% | 55.2% |
| AZTEC HIGH AZTEC | 696 | 100.0% | N/A |
Matched among New Mexico high 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 SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New Mexico | In Bernalillo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.1% | #16 of 17 | #8 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.0% | #14 of 16 | #6 of 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.2% | #18 of 20 | #8 of 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 604 | #54 of 212 | #14 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.7:1 | #14 of 104 | #2 of 29 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.6% | #56 of 113 | #17 of 30 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.5% | #67 of 147 | #7 of 40 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.4% | #47 of 60 | #18 of 19 |
Ranked against other public high 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
604
-18 (-3%) vs 2020
+739% since 2000-01, when it was 72
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 604 | 51.7 | 11.7:1 | 100% (601) |
| 2023-24 | 620 | 57.4 | 10.8:1 | 100% (617) |
| 2022-23 | 606 | 50.3 | 12.1:1 | 100% (603) |
| 2020-21 | 622 | 50 | 12.4:1 | 100% (619) |
| 2017-18 | 619 | 49.1 | 12.6:1 | 100% (616) |
| 2015-16 | 583 | 44 | 13.3:1 | 99% (580) |
| 2010-11 | 229 | 18 | 12.7:1 | 99% (226) |
| 2000-01 | 72 | 4 | 18.0:1 | 0% (0) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (619 to 604); teachers up 5% (49.1 to 51.7).
About SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY
As a medium-sized high school, SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY serves students in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico. School enrollment was 604 students in 2024-25, in grades 6 through 12. For comparison, high schools in New Mexico average about 450 students.
ALBUQUERQUE is responsible for 172 schools, SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY included, with 74,800 students in all.
A majority of students at SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY, 74%, are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 14% Hispanic and 11% multiracial. The White share of the county population is lower, at 49%. SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY has a diversity index of 43%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY's 51.7 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 11.7:1. For comparison, high schools in New Mexico average 22.9:1. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 100%. The gap from the 90% average for public schools in Bernalillo County is 10 points.
allk12 grades SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY a D. The grade compares the school only with New Mexico public schools, because each state gives its own test.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY falls in the middle 80% of New Mexico schools: 27.1% actual against 33.5% predicted.
Census estimates describe Bernalillo County this way: median household income is about $69,473, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Bernalillo County number 211 and enroll about 85,724.
The next-closest public school is NAVAJO ELEMENTARY, about 0.2 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY. In a group of 7 nearby schools with scores, SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. Federal records list SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY as a charter school.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY went from 622 students to 604.
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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
Other South Valley Academy schools
One other US public school is named South Valley Academy. SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY is the largest of the 2.
- South Valley AcademyRogue River, OR · 106 students
Nearby schools
- NAVAJO ELEMENTARY0.2 mi · 344
- ROBERT F. KENNEDY CHARTER0.8 mi · 314
- BARCELONA ELEMENTARY1.0 mi · 202
- RUDOLFO ANAYA ELEMENTARY1.3 mi · 592
- RIO GRANDE HIGH1.3 mi · 1,475
- SOLARE COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL1.4 mi · 314
Frequently asked questions
About SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMYHow large is SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY?
SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY enrolls approximately 604 students in grades 06-12.
Is SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY an elementary, middle, or high school?
SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY is a high school covering grades 06-12.
How many teachers does SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY have?
SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY employs 52 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.7:1.
What is the student diversity at SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY?
Student demographics at SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY are roughly 74% White, 14% Hispanic, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY?
SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY is overseen by ALBUQUERQUE in Bernalillo County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.