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Enrollment
520
Middle
DISTRICT 423 · STATE 335
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALBUQUERQUE·NCES 350006000114
TRUMAN MIDDLE
9400 BENAVIDES RD SW, ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87121 · (505) 836-3030 · Bernalillo County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL520 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 3% of New Mexico public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Mexico public middle schools
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 12.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
518 students
DISTRICT 92% · STATE 90%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 152 | 29% |
| Grade 7 | 179 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 189 | 36% |
Student demographics
13%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 55% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NM-MSSA + NM-ASR 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
27.9%
NM avg 44.2%
Math
7.9%
NM avg 27.2%
What this means: On the NM-MSSA + NM-ASR, New Mexico's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 8 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Mexico schools, those numbers are about 44 and 27.
Source: NM-MSSA + NM-ASR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NM schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
16.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.5%
based on NM schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 34% typical for New Mexico schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like TRUMAN MIDDLE
TRUMAN MIDDLE's state test result (16.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRUMAN MIDDLE this school | 520 | 99.6% | 16.6% |
| CHAPARRAL MIDDLE CHAPARRAL | 546 | 100.0% | 28.0% |
| ERNIE PYLE MIDDLE ALBUQUERQUE | 409 | 99.5% | 17.3% |
| JOHN ADAMS MIDDLE ALBUQUERQUE | 420 | 99.5% | 20.6% |
| SANTA TERESA MIDDLE SANTA TERESA | 528 | 100.0% | 31.0% |
| VISTA MIDDLE LAS CRUCES | 574 | 100.0% | 33.6% |
Matched among New Mexico middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where TRUMAN MIDDLE ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Mexico | In Bernalillo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.6% | #109 of 113 | #28 of 31 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 7.9% | #111 of 120 | #24 of 31 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.9% | #106 of 122 | #22 of 31 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 520 | #38 of 160 | #7 of 31 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.1:1 | #14 of 101 | #6 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 12.8% | #97 of 103 | #27 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.6% | #61 of 116 | #9 of 31 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -45.0% | #4 of 89 | #3 of 25 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
520
-413 (-44%) vs 2020
-41% since 1990-91, when it was 885
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
was 11.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 520 | 51.8 | 10.1:1 | 100% (518) |
| 2023-24 | 573 | 52.6 | 10.9:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 671 | 55.6 | 12.1:1 | 100% (671) |
| 2020-21 | 933 | 79 | 11.8:1 | 100% (933) |
| 2017-18 | 945 | 74.3 | 12.7:1 | 100% (942) |
| 2015-16 | 1,179 | 89 | 13.3:1 | 100% (1,179) |
| 2010-11 | 1,296 | 81 | 16.0:1 | 100% (1,293) |
| 2000-01 | 808 | 56 | 14.4:1 | 86% (694) |
| 1990-91 | 885 | 55 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for TRUMAN MIDDLE.
Since 2017-18: students down 45% (945 to 520); teachers down 30% (74.3 to 51.8).
About TRUMAN MIDDLE
TRUMAN MIDDLE is a large middle school for students in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico. It reported 520 students in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. By comparison, middle schools in New Mexico enroll about 335 students on average.
ALBUQUERQUE counts 74,800 students in its 172 schools, and TRUMAN MIDDLE is one of them.
TRUMAN MIDDLE is 93% Hispanic by enrollment. The remaining shares are 3% White. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Bernalillo County's population at about 49%. The diversity index for TRUMAN MIDDLE is 13%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Staffing at TRUMAN MIDDLE comes to 51.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 10.1:1. Middle schools in New Mexico average 12.5:1, 2.5 more students per teacher than here. TRUMAN MIDDLE counts 100% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Bernalillo County average 90%.
TRUMAN MIDDLE earns an F on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 3% of New Mexico public middle schools.
TRUMAN MIDDLE falls short of its prediction by 16.9 points. The model expects 33.5% for a school with its free or reduced-price lunch share in New Mexico; the school's rate is 16.6%.
Looking at the county, Bernalillo County, median household income comes to about $69,473, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. The county's public schools total 211, with about 85,724 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, SOLARE COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL, is about 0.6 miles. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, TRUMAN MIDDLE is 8th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
Under the NCES locale system, TRUMAN MIDDLE is City: Large.
In 2020-21 the school reported 933 students, and in 2024-25 it reported 520. Grade changes, mergers, or boundary shifts can explain gaps this large. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 11.8:1 to 10.1:1.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at TRUMAN MIDDLE. You can also rate the school on this page.
Bernalillo County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
673,930
Census ACS
Median income
$69,473
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
211
85,724 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ALBUQUERQUE
- VOLCANO VISTA HIGHHigh · 2,089 students
- ATRISCO HERITAGE ACADEMY HSHigh · 1,930 students
- LA CUEVA HIGHHigh · 1,826 students
- SANDIA HIGHHigh · 1,618 students
- ELDORADO HIGHCombined · 1,579 students
- ALBUQUERQUE HIGHHigh · 1,568 students
Other schools in ALBUQUERQUE
- VOLCANO VISTA HIGHHigh · 2,089 students
- ATRISCO HERITAGE ACADEMY HSHigh · 1,930 students
- LA CUEVA HIGHHigh · 1,826 students
- SANDIA HIGHHigh · 1,618 students
- ELDORADO HIGHCombined · 1,579 students
- ALBUQUERQUE HIGHHigh · 1,568 students
Other Truman Middle schools
3 other US public schools in 3 states are named Truman Middle. TRUMAN MIDDLE is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- TRUMAN MIDDLE SCHOOLST. LOUIS, MO · 816 students
- TRUMAN MIDDLEST JOSEPH, MO · 486 students
- Truman Middle SchoolTacoma, WA · 438 students
Nearby schools
- SOLARE COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL0.6 mi · 314
- MARYANN BINFORD ELEMENTARY0.7 mi · 460
- CARLOS REY ELEMENTARY0.7 mi · 446
- EDWARD GONZALES ELEMENTARY1.0 mi · 339
- HELEN CORDERO PRIMARY1.0 mi · 445
- RUDOLFO ANAYA ELEMENTARY1.2 mi · 592
Frequently asked questions
About TRUMAN MIDDLEHow many students attend TRUMAN MIDDLE?
TRUMAN MIDDLE enrolls approximately 520 students in grades 06-08.
Is TRUMAN MIDDLE an elementary, middle, or high school?
TRUMAN MIDDLE is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at TRUMAN MIDDLE?
Approximately 10.1:1 students per teacher at TRUMAN MIDDLE.
What is the racial breakdown of students at TRUMAN MIDDLE?
At TRUMAN MIDDLE, the student body is approximately 3% White, 93% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian.
Is TRUMAN MIDDLE public or private?
TRUMAN MIDDLE is a public K-12 school, overseen by ALBUQUERQUE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.