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SPARTAN LEARNING ACADEMY
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Test scores
NM-MSSA + NM-ASR 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat 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 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Mexico schools, those numbers are about 44 and 27.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 26% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SPARTAN LEARNING ACADEMY
SPARTAN LEARNING ACADEMY operates as a cozy middle-grades school in BERNALILLO, New Mexico, part of BERNALILLO. Current enrollment sits at 276 students spanning grades 7 through 8.
BERNALILLO runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 2,761 students. SPARTAN LEARNING ACADEMY is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, SPARTAN LEARNING ACADEMY records that 61% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 32% Native American, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 40% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.5:1. The state averages around 12.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, SPARTAN LEARNING 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 25.9%, a residual of -7.5 points.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Sandoval County) shows that median household income runs about $86,636, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Sandoval County's 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,445 students), SPARTAN LEARNING ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is BERNALILLO ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SPARTAN LEARNING ACADEMY. On composite proficiency, SPARTAN LEARNING ACADEMY comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.7%.
The school occupies a residential site.
Looking at the recent track record. SPARTAN LEARNING ACADEMY's enrollment has ticked down 38% since 2018, when it stood at 445 (now 276). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 11% to 2%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.
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Sandoval County at a glance
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