THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL AT MESA DEL SOL

Located at 2000 BOBBY FOSTER RD, in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL AT MESA DEL SOL is a cozy unified-grade school that caters to 278 students (grades pre-K through 12), part of ALBUQUERQUE. That puts it 44% below the typical public school in New Mexico, which averages around 498 students.

ALBUQUERQUE runs 171 schools in total, collectively educating 74,041 students. THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL AT MESA DEL SOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL AT MESA DEL SOL reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 68%. Other groups include 20% White, 7% multiracial, 3% Native American. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Bernalillo County runs at roughly 90%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL AT MESA DEL SOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.7%, the actual is 37.0%, a residual of -11.8 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Bernalillo County put the typical household earns roughly $69,473 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL AT MESA DEL SOL is one of 211 public schools in Bernalillo County (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students).

The closest other public school is MOUNTAIN VIEW ELEMENTARY, roughly 2.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL AT MESA DEL SOL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 26.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL AT MESA DEL SOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 11%: 313 students in 2018 compared to 278 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 38% to 20% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 10.2:1 in 2018 to 7.0:1 today.

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