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Alumni: what's one memory from YARBRO ELEMENTARY that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
474
Elementary
DISTRICT 321 · STATE 287
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOVINGTON·NCES 350174000451
YARBRO ELEMENTARY
700 WEST JEFFERSON AVE, LOVINGTON, NM 88260 · (575) 739-2490 · Lea County
GRADES 04–05ELEMENTARY33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL474 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 20% of New Mexico public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
15.2:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.7:1 · STATE 12.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
474 students
DISTRICT 100% · STATE 90%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 4 | 249 | 53% |
| Grade 5 | 225 | 47% |
Student demographics
28%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 28% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within LOVINGTON. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NM-MSSA + NM-ASR 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
36.1%
NM avg 44.2%
Math
14.8%
NM avg 27.2%
What this means: On the NM-MSSA + NM-ASR, New Mexico's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 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
25.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.4%
based on NM schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% 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 YARBRO ELEMENTARY
YARBRO ELEMENTARY's state test result (25.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| YARBRO ELEMENTARY this school | 474 | 100.0% | 25.2% |
| FAIRACRES ELEMENTARY LAS CRUCES | 405 | 99.8% | 25.4% |
| JORNADA ELEMENTARY LAS CRUCES | 429 | 100.0% | 38.9% |
| LLANO ELEMENTARY LOVINGTON | 435 | 100.0% | N/A |
| DESERT VIEW ELEMENTARY LOS LUNAS | 393 | 100.0% | 25.5% |
| VALENCIA ELEMENTARY LOS LUNAS | 370 | 100.0% | 25.7% |
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 YARBRO ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Mexico | In Lea County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.2% | #263 of 329 | #16 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 14.8% | #285 of 354 | #17 of 18 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.1% | #229 of 366 | #11 of 18 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 474 | #60 of 490 | #2 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #249 of 318 | #9 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 27.6% | #236 of 334 | #12 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #160 of 393 | #5 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.4% | #136 of 287 | #3 of 13 |
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
474
-31 (-6%) vs 2020
-3% since 1990-91, when it was 488
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 17.4:1
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 | 474 | 31.2 | 15.2:1 | 100% (474) |
| 2023-24 | 457 | 25.8 | 17.7:1 | 100% (457) |
| 2022-23 | 443 | 26.8 | 16.5:1 | 99% (440) |
| 2020-21 | 505 | 29 | 17.4:1 | 99% (502) |
| 2017-18 | 619 | 30.3 | 20.4:1 | 71% (437) |
| 2015-16 | 582 | 31 | 18.8:1 | 67% (389) |
| 2010-11 | 459 | 26 | 17.6:1 | 77% (354) |
| 2000-01 | 421 | 28 | 15.0:1 | 99% (418) |
| 1990-91 | 488 | 24 | 20.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for YARBRO ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (619 to 474); teachers up 3% (30.3 to 31.2).
About YARBRO ELEMENTARY
YARBRO ELEMENTARY is an elementary school in LOVINGTON, New Mexico, reachable at (575) 739-2490. The school serves 474 students in grades 4 through 5 in 2024-25. For comparison, elementary schools in New Mexico average about 287 students.
Besides YARBRO ELEMENTARY, LOVINGTON runs 9 other schools. The district enrolls 3,397 students.
About 84% of the student body at YARBRO ELEMENTARY is Hispanic. Smaller groups are 14% White. County-wide, 63% of Lea County residents are Hispanic. The school's diversity index is 28%, meaning two students picked at random have a 28% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school has about 15.2 students per teacher and 31.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 2.3 above the 12.9:1 average for elementary schools in New Mexico. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 100%. That is 27 points above the 73% average for public schools in Lea County.
allk12 grades YARBRO ELEMENTARY a C-. The grade compares the school only with New Mexico public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 33.4% at YARBRO ELEMENTARY; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 25.2%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Lea County show that the median household income is $68,015, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. YARBRO ELEMENTARY is one of 38 public schools in the county.
The shortest distance from YARBRO ELEMENTARY to another public school is about 0.1 miles, to LOVINGTON 6TH GRADE ACADEMY. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 32.8% proficiency; YARBRO ELEMENTARY posts 25.2%.
Locale: Town: Remote. In NCES terms, the school is in a town far from an urbanized area.
Enrollment is down 6% from 2020-21, when YARBRO ELEMENTARY had 505 students, to 2024-25, when it had 474. The ratio was 17.4:1 in 2020-21 and 15.2:1 in 2024-25.
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Lea County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
73,733
Census ACS
Median income
$68,015
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
16%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
38
15,126 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LOVINGTON
- LOVINGTON HIGHHigh · 746 students
- TAYLOR MIDDLEMiddle · 442 students
- LLANO ELEMENTARYElementary · 435 students
- LOVINGTON FRESHMAN ACADEMYHigh · 267 students
- BEN ALEXANDER ELEMENTARYElementary · 238 students
- LOVINGTON 6TH GRADE ACADEMYMiddle · 232 students
Other schools in LOVINGTON
- LOVINGTON HIGHHigh · 746 students
- TAYLOR MIDDLEMiddle · 442 students
- LLANO ELEMENTARYElementary · 435 students
- LOVINGTON FRESHMAN ACADEMYHigh · 267 students
- BEN ALEXANDER ELEMENTARYElementary · 238 students
- LOVINGTON 6TH GRADE ACADEMYMiddle · 232 students
Nearby schools
- LOVINGTON 6TH GRADE ACADEMY0.1 mi · 232
- NEW HOPE ALTERNATIVE HIGH0.2 mi · 104
- JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY0.2 mi · 228
- LEA ELEMENTARY0.7 mi · 231
- TAYLOR MIDDLE0.8 mi · 442
- LLANO ELEMENTARY1.0 mi · 435
Frequently asked questions
About YARBRO ELEMENTARYHow many students attend YARBRO ELEMENTARY?
YARBRO ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 474 students in grades 04-05.
What grades does YARBRO ELEMENTARY serve?
YARBRO ELEMENTARY serves grades 04-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at YARBRO ELEMENTARY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at YARBRO ELEMENTARY is approximately 15.2:1 (31 FTE teachers).
How diverse is YARBRO ELEMENTARY?
YARBRO ELEMENTARY reports a student body of 14% White, 84% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees YARBRO ELEMENTARY?
YARBRO ELEMENTARY is overseen by LOVINGTON in Lea County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.