SUNSET VIEW ELEMENTARY

As a moderately sized elementary-level community in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, SUNSET VIEW ELEMENTARY teaches 407 students from grades K through 5, operated by ALBUQUERQUE. Enrollment runs roughly 42% larger than the state mean of about 287.

Within ALBUQUERQUE, which oversees 171 schools and 74,041 students, SUNSET VIEW ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, SUNSET VIEW ELEMENTARY logs that 64% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 19% White, 6% multiracial, 6% Native American, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 49% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, SUNSET VIEW ELEMENTARY reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.9:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at SUNSET VIEW ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Bernalillo County runs at roughly 90%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, SUNSET VIEW 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 38.7%, a residual of +5.3 points.

Across the wider county, Bernalillo County reports that median household income runs about $69,473, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. SUNSET VIEW ELEMENTARY is one of 211 public schools in Bernalillo County (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students).

The closest other public school is JAMES MONROE MIDDLE, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SUNSET VIEW ELEMENTARY ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 40.5%.

SUNSET VIEW ELEMENTARY operates from a high-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. SUNSET VIEW ELEMENTARY's enrollment has contracted 44% since 2018, when it stood at 724 (now 407). Over the same period, the White share declined from 26% to 19%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.

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