Public Schools in New Mexico
873 schools · 152 districts · 313,952 students
Largest Schools in New Mexico
School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.
Cleveland High School
Rio Rancho
Rio Rancho High
Rio Rancho
Hobbs High
Hobbs
Volcano Vista High
Albuquerque
Atrisco Heritage Academy HS
Albuquerque
Organ Mountain High School
Las Cruces
Farmington High
Farmington
La Cueva High
Albuquerque
West Mesa High
Albuquerque
Las Cruces High
Las Cruces
Frequently Asked Questions
New Mexico has 873 public schools across 152 districts, serving 313,952 students.
The largest school in New Mexico is Cleveland High School with 2,631 students. New Mexico has 873 public schools overall.
The average proficiency rate is 37%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.
All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.
School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.
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.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
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.