19 public K-12 schools in Hobbs 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, Hobbs has more public-school enrollment than 81% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Hobbs'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.
11 of Hobbs's 19 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.
100.0% of enrollment in reporting Hobbs 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 25-point gap between Sanger Elementary and Taylor Elementary 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.
That concentration means Hobbs-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
Hobbs school enrollment ranges from 7 students (lowest) to 2,312 students (highest), a spread of 2,305 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 Variation between sub-units within Hobbs is typically wider than the Hobbs-aggregate figure suggests.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Sanger Elementary | 44 |
| 2. | College Lane Elementary | 43 |
| 3. | Stone Elementary | 42 |
| 4. | Mills Elementary | 41 |
| 5. | Will Rogers Elementary | 39 |
| 6. | Highland Middle School | 35 |
| 7. | Coronado Elementary | 35 |
| 8. | Edison Elementary | 34 |
| 9. | Hobbs High | 29 |
| 10. | Heizer Middle School | 27 |
| 11. | Broadmoor Elementary | 27 |
| 12. | Jefferson Elementary | 27 |
| 13. | Booker T. Washington Elementary | 27 |
| 14. | Southern Heights Elementary | 25 |
| 15. | Houston Middle School | 24 |
| 16. | Hobbs Freshman High | 24 |
| 17. | Murray Elementary | 21 |
| 18. | Taylor Elementary | 19 |
| 19. | Lae County Corrections | - |
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.
Sanger Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Hobbs schools in this federal-data comparison at 44/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Hobbs has 19 public schools with a total enrollment of 10,104 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.6:1.
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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.
