Ocotillo Elementary
Carlsbad, NM · Elementary School
Ocotillo Elementary is a elementary school in Carlsbad, NM with 708 students enrolled and a 62% proficiency rate. Part of Carlsbad Municipal Schools. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Ocotillo Elementary is a elementary school located in Carlsbad, New Mexico. The school serves 708 students. The student-to-teacher ratio is 18.2:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 62% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
25% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Ocotillo Elementary is part of the Carlsbad Municipal Schools in New Mexico.
How This School Compares
Ocotillo Elementary has 708 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Carlsbad Municipal Schools (546 students). Its 62% proficiency rate is 6 percentage points above the district average of 56%. Compared to the New Mexico state average of 37%, the school performs 24 points higher.
Frequently Asked Questions
Ocotillo Elementary has 708 students enrolled. The student-to-teacher ratio is 18.2:1.
According to EDFacts data, 62% of students at Ocotillo Elementary meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Ocotillo Elementary is part of the Carlsbad Municipal Schools in Carlsbad, New Mexico. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
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.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.