SUNSET ELEMENTARY

SUNSET ELEMENTARY, a reasonably sized elementary school in ROSWELL, New Mexico, one of the schools within ROSWELL, enrolls 253 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Within ROSWELL, which oversees 22 schools and 9,184 students, SUNSET ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

Demographically, SUNSET ELEMENTARY logs that nearly all students (88%) are Hispanic; the rest consists of 10% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 58%.

In terms of school funding signals, Roughly 100% of students at SUNSET ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, SUNSET 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 20.5%, a residual of -12.9 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Chaves County) shows that median household income runs about $52,938, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 20% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SUNSET ELEMENTARY is one of 33 public schools in Chaves County (combined enrollment of about 10,504 students).

Nearest neighbor: UNIVERSITY HIGH, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SUNSET ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, SUNSET ELEMENTARY comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 40.7%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 24%: 334 students in 2018 compared to 253 in 2025.

On this page, the feed for SUNSET ELEMENTARY typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.