18 public K-12 schools in Gallup from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Gallup has more public-school enrollment than 77% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Gallup's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.
12 of Gallup's 18 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.
98.9% of enrollment in reporting Gallup schools is eligible for free lunch, while the city list spans 4 districts. That pairing makes a citywide average especially easy to misread: the need measure follows students, but staffing decisions, calendars, program rules, and federal allocations are administered through separate district structures. The 38-point gap between Middle College High School Charter - Gallup and Gallup Middle shows how much reported resource capacity can vary inside the same municipal label. Compare schools within the same district first, then use the city view to see how those local systems differ.
Gallup school enrollment ranges from 5 students (lowest) to 1,244 students (highest), a spread of 1,239 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
17% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Middle College High School Charter - Gallup | 59 |
| 2. | Six Directions Indigenous School | 46 |
| 3. | Gallup Central Alternative | 45 |
| 4. | Hozho Academy | 45 |
| 5. | Del Norte Elementary | 41 |
| 6. | Twin Lakes Elementary | 37 |
| 7. | Gallup High | 36 |
| 8. | Red Rock Elementary | 36 |
| 9. | Tobe Turpen Elementary | 34 |
| 10. | Indian Hills Elementary | 34 |
| 11. | Jefferson Elementary | 33 |
| 12. | Lincoln Elementary | 33 |
| 13. | Miyamura High School | 31 |
| 14. | Stagecoach Elementary | 31 |
| 15. | Chief Manuelito Middle | 27 |
| 16. | John F. Kennedy Middle | 22 |
| 17. | Gallup Middle | 21 |
| 18. | Education Dev Center | - |
Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.
Middle College High School Charter - Gallup has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Gallup schools in this federal-data comparison at 59/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Gallup has 18 public schools with a total enrollment of 8,932 students. 3 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 19:1.
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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.
