STONE ELEMENTARY

STONE ELEMENTARY is one of the mid-tier primary schools in HOBBS, New Mexico, run under HOBBS, with 429 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New Mexico's public schools average about 287 students each, so STONE ELEMENTARY sits 49% bigger than that benchmark.

HOBBS comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 10,097 students; STONE ELEMENTARY is among them.

Demographically, STONE ELEMENTARY shows that 66% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 28% White, 2% Black. Compared to Lea County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, STONE ELEMENTARY has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.8:1. The state averages around 12.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 50% of students at STONE ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Lea County's rate of about 73%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, STONE ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.3%; this one delivers 36.0%.

Across the wider county, census data for Lea County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,015 per year, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Lea County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,126 students), of which STONE ELEMENTARY is one.

MILLS ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, STONE ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 34.7%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at STONE ELEMENTARY has stayed largely flat, going from 439 students in 2018 to 429 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 45% to 28% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for STONE ELEMENTARY typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.