Albuquerque Public Schools
Tijeras, NM · 174 schools · 79,805 students
Largest Schools
Schools ranked by enrollment. Proficiency data from EDFacts where available.
Frequently Asked Questions
Albuquerque Public Schools has 174 schools serving 79,805 students. The average proficiency rate across the district is 39%. The average graduation rate is 73%.
Albuquerque Public Schools operates 174 public schools, including Volcano Vista High, Atrisco Heritage Academy HS, La Cueva High, West Mesa High, Cibola High and others. The full school list is shown above with enrollment and grade-level details.
The average graduation rate across high schools in Albuquerque Public Schools is approximately 73% (EDFacts district-level data, most recent reporting year). Individual school graduation rates may vary; this is a district-wide adjusted-cohort graduation rate.
The largest school in Albuquerque Public Schools is Volcano Vista High with 2,216 students.
Albuquerque Public Schools serves 79,805 students across 174 schools in NM, per the latest NCES Common Core of Data enrollment.
Albuquerque Public Schools's average proficiency rate of 39% (math and reading combined, EDFacts) is below average and may indicate room for improvement. "Good" depends on what you value — proficiency is one signal; enrollment trends, class size, graduation rates, and district resources also matter. Check individual school pages for granular data.
Student-teacher ratios are reported at the school level by NCES, not aggregated at the district level in our dataset. Open any individual school page in Albuquerque Public Schools to see its specific student-teacher ratio. The US national average is approximately 16:1 for public schools.
All data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (enrollment, school count, demographics) and EDFacts assessment results (proficiency rates, graduation rates). Proficiency and graduation rates are reported at the district level. Both are federal sources used by the US Department of Education.
School performance data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments.
For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.