TOMBAUGH ELEMENTARY

Located at 226 CARVER RD, in LAS CRUCES, New Mexico, TOMBAUGH ELEMENTARY is a large primary school that works with 565 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by LAS CRUCES. That puts it 97% larger than the typical public school in New Mexico, which averages around 287 students.

LAS CRUCES comprises 39 schools with combined enrollment of 22,670 students; TOMBAUGH ELEMENTARY is among them.

Demographically, TOMBAUGH ELEMENTARY shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%). Other groups include 10% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.9:1, putting TOMBAUGH ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at TOMBAUGH ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, TOMBAUGH ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.5%, the actual is 43.4%, a residual of +9.9 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Doñan Ana County indicate median household earnings sit near $56,848, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. TOMBAUGH ELEMENTARY is one of 81 public schools in Doñan Ana County (combined enrollment of about 36,561 students).

MESILLA PARK ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around TOMBAUGH ELEMENTARY. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), TOMBAUGH ELEMENTARY ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 39.6%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. TOMBAUGH ELEMENTARY's enrollment has shrank 18% since 2018, when it stood at 689 (now 565). The White share of enrollment fell from 18% to 10% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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