NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools NM

Best-Resourced Schools in Grants, NM

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7 public K-12 schools in Grants from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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7
Schools
2,094
Students
32.8/100
Avg Resource Index
12.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Grants has more public-school enrollment than 14% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Grants High enrolls 38.5% of Grants's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

4 of Grants's 7 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.

Economic need crosses separate district systems

99.9% of enrollment in reporting Grants schools is eligible for free lunch, while the city list spans 2 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 53-point gap between Gccs Early College High School and Northwestern Nm Corrections 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.

City enrollment
Top 86%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
19th percentile
Teacher staffing
83rd percentile

Grants High accounts for 38.5% of all Grants public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Grants-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Grants school enrollment varies 807× across entities

Grants school enrollment ranges from 1 students (lowest) to 807 students (highest), a spread of 806 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

Grants reports 99.9% free-lunch eligibility

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

Grants student-teacher ratio is 12.6:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Gccs Early College High School 53
2. Los Alamitos Middle 45
3. Mount Taylor Elementary 41
4. Mesa View Elementary 33
5. Grants High 25
6. Northwestern Nm Corrections -
7. Western Nm Corrections -

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Grants

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.

  1. 1 Gccs Early College High School 67.4/100
  2. 2 Grants High 62.7/100
  3. 3 Los Alamitos Middle 61.9/100
  4. 4 Mount Taylor Elementary 61.1/100
  5. 5 Mesa View Elementary 60.7/100

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Which Grants school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Gccs Early College High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Grants schools in this federal-data comparison at 53/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Grants, NM? ▼

Grants has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,094 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.6:1.

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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.