TAOS MUNICIPAL CHARTER

TAOS MUNICIPAL CHARTER is a primary school of small scale in TAOS, New Mexico, run under TAOS, enrolling 216 students in grades K through 8. That puts it 25% smaller than the typical public school in New Mexico, which averages around 287 students.

TAOS comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 2,184 students; TAOS MUNICIPAL CHARTER is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, TAOS MUNICIPAL CHARTER logs that 61% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest is composed of 31% White, 3% multiracial, 3% Native American. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

On the resource side, TAOS MUNICIPAL CHARTER records 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Taos County (around 89%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, TAOS MUNICIPAL CHARTER is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 33.4%; this one delivers 51.5%, a residual of +18.1 points.

In the broader community, Taos County reports that the typical household earns roughly $58,950 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Taos County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,727 students), of which TAOS MUNICIPAL CHARTER is one.

The closest other public school is TAOS MIDDLE, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, TAOS MUNICIPAL CHARTER comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 36.4%.

The school occupies a small-town site. TAOS MUNICIPAL CHARTER is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at TAOS MUNICIPAL CHARTER has showed little movement, going from 213 students in 2018 to 216 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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