TUCUMCARI ELEMENTARY

TUCUMCARI ELEMENTARY operates as a high-enrollment K-5 school in TUCUMCARI, New Mexico, part of TUCUMCARI. Current enrollment sits at 451 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New Mexico's public schools average about 287 students each, so TUCUMCARI ELEMENTARY sits 57% larger than that benchmark.

TUCUMCARI runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 911 students. TUCUMCARI ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

Demographically, TUCUMCARI ELEMENTARY shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 71%. Beyond that, the school records 24% White, 3% Black. By comparison, Quay County as a whole is about 45% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.9:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Quay County (around 87%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, TUCUMCARI ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.5%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Quay County indicate median household income runs about $41,946, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 20%. TUCUMCARI ELEMENTARY is one of 13 public schools in Quay County (combined enrollment of about 1,405 students).

TUCUMCARI HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, TUCUMCARI ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. TUCUMCARI ELEMENTARY's enrollment has decreased 11% since 2018, when it stood at 506 (now 451). White enrollment moved from 36% to 24% across the same window.

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