TIERRA ENCANTADA CHARTER SCHOOL

TIERRA ENCANTADA CHARTER SCHOOL operates as a small four-year high school in SANTA FE, New Mexico, one of the schools within TIERRA ENCANTADA CHARTER SCHOOL. Current enrollment sits at 256 students spanning grades 7 through 12. That puts it 43% below the typical public school in New Mexico, which averages around 450 students.

Operationally, TIERRA ENCANTADA CHARTER SCHOOL answers to TIERRA ENCANTADA CHARTER SCHOOL, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On the student-mix side, TIERRA ENCANTADA CHARTER SCHOOL logs that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder comes out to 4% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.9:1, putting TIERRA ENCANTADA CHARTER SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Santa Fe County (around 84%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, TIERRA ENCANTADA CHARTER SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New Mexico public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 44.5%; TIERRA ENCANTADA CHARTER SCHOOL posts 26.7%, -17.8 points below that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Santa Fe County put median household income runs about $79,071, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Santa Fe County runs 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,719 students), of which TIERRA ENCANTADA CHARTER SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is MONTE DEL SOL CHARTER, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), TIERRA ENCANTADA CHARTER SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 28.2%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. TIERRA ENCANTADA CHARTER SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 16%: 304 students in 2018 compared to 256 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 27% to 4% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.