Enrollment
363
Elementary
DISTRICT 414 · STATE 287
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAS CRUCES·NCES 350150000394
UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARY
2005 SOUTH LOCUST ST, LAS CRUCES, NM 88001 · (575) 527-9649 · Doña Ana County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL363 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 53% of New Mexico public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 12.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
363 students
DISTRICT 100% · STATE 90%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 49 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 57 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 45 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 49 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 14% larger than its 5th grade class (50).
Student demographics
42%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 34% · 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
47.1%
NM avg 44.2%
Math
17.1%
NM avg 27.2%
What this means: On the NM-MSSA + NM-ASR, New Mexico's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
36.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.4%
based on NM schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for New Mexico schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Mexico's top nor bottom 10%.
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 UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARY
UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARY's state test result (36.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARY this school | 363 | 100.0% | 36.0% |
| GOV BENT ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 339 | 99.4% | 16.7% |
| EMERSON ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 334 | 98.5% | 24.4% |
| APACHE ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 341 | 98.8% | 19.9% |
| CHELWOOD ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 309 | 99.4% | 21.1% |
| MISSION AVENUE ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 336 | 100.0% | 28.8% |
Matched among New Mexico elementary 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 UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Mexico | In Doña Ana County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #147 of 329 | #23 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.1% | #262 of 354 | #29 of 39 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.1% | #128 of 366 | #16 of 40 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 363 | #160 of 490 | #24 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #73 of 318 | #9 of 37 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.0% | #165 of 334 | #5 of 37 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #130 of 393 | #27 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.8% | #198 of 287 | #22 of 33 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
363
-14 (-4%) vs 2020
-12% since 1990-91, when it was 412
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
was 12.6:1
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 | 363 | 32 | 11.3:1 | 100% (363) |
| 2023-24 | 341 | 30.1 | 11.3:1 | 98% (335) |
| 2022-23 | 358 | 29.5 | 12.1:1 | 100% (358) |
| 2020-21 | 377 | 30 | 12.6:1 | 100% (377) |
| 2017-18 | 421 | 26.4 | 16.0:1 | 100% (421) |
| 2015-16 | 397 | 27 | 14.7:1 | 100% (397) |
| 2010-11 | 397 | 27 | 14.7:1 | 77% (305) |
| 2000-01 | 405 | 24 | 16.9:1 | 68% (274) |
| 1990-91 | 412 | 20 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (421 to 363); teachers up 21% (26.4 to 32).
About UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARY
UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARY is a mid-sized elementary school in LAS CRUCES, New Mexico, one of the schools in LAS CRUCES. Its enrollment is 363 students, spread over pre-K through 5. On average, elementary schools in New Mexico enroll around 287, and this school is 26% above that mark.
UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARY is one school in a 39-school district, LAS CRUCES, which enrolls 22,670 students.
More than half of the students at UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARY are Hispanic (74%). Next come 15% White, 6% Black, and 4% Asian. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 42%.
Teacher count: 32 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 11.3:1. The gap from the 12.9:1 average for elementary schools in New Mexico is 1.6 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 100%. The figure for public schools in Doña Ana County is close, at 98%.
UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARY earns a B- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 53% of New Mexico public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 33.4% for UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARY. The school posts 36.0%, 2.6 points above the prediction.
For Doña Ana County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $56,848 a year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 19% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Doña Ana County number 81, with about 36,561 students.
The closest school to UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARY is CONLEE ELEMENTARY, located about 0.5 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARY. In a group of 5 nearby schools with scores, UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARY ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Its location is classified as City: Mid-size by the National Center for Education Statistics.
The school's student count fell 4% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 11.3:1, from 12.6:1.
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Doña Ana County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
224,266
Census ACS
Median income
$56,848
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
19%
Below federal line
Schools in county
81
36,561 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LAS CRUCES
- ORGAN MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,128 students
- CENTENNIAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,713 students
- LAS CRUCES HIGHHigh · 1,703 students
- MAYFIELD HIGHHigh · 1,327 students
- CAMINO REAL MIDDLEMiddle · 933 students
- MESA MIDDLEMiddle · 728 students
Other schools in LAS CRUCES
- ORGAN MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,128 students
- CENTENNIAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,713 students
- LAS CRUCES HIGHHigh · 1,703 students
- MAYFIELD HIGHHigh · 1,327 students
- CAMINO REAL MIDDLEMiddle · 933 students
- MESA MIDDLEMiddle · 728 students
Other University Hills Elementary schools
One other US public school is named University Hills Elementary. UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARY is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- University Hills Elem SchoolROCHESTER HILLS, MI · 379 students
Nearby schools
- CONLEE ELEMENTARY0.5 mi · 417
- LAS MONTANAS CHARTER0.8 mi · 201
- LAS CRUCES HIGH1.0 mi · 1,703
- LYNN MIDDLE1.1 mi · 507
- MESILLA VALLEY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY1.1 mi · 94
- VALLEY VIEW ELEMENTARY1.2 mi · 343
Frequently asked questions
About UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARYHow large is UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARY?
UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 363 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARY serve?
UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARY serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARY have?
UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARY employs 32 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.3:1.
What is the student diversity at UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARY?
Student demographics at UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARY are roughly 15% White, 74% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARY in?
UNIVERSITY HILLS ELEMENTARY is part of LAS CRUCES.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.