NCES CCD 2024-25 12 schools NM

Best-Resourced Schools in Las Vegas, NM

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

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12
Schools
2,583
Students
47.3/100
Avg Resource Index
16.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Las Vegas has more public-school enrollment than 22% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Las Vegas sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Las Vegas's list includes 5 elementary, 2 middle, and 2 high-school campuses, plus 3 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

Economic need crosses separate district systems

99.9% of enrollment in reporting Las Vegas 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 32-point gap between Union Elementary and Rio Gallinas School 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 78%
School count
Top 31%
Resource Index average
79th percentile
Teacher staffing
38th percentile

West Las Vegas High School accounts for 17.1% of all Las Vegas public-school enrollment

That concentration means Las Vegas-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

Las Vegas school enrollment varies 15× across entities

Las Vegas school enrollment ranges from 30 students (lowest) to 442 students (highest), a spread of 412 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

Las Vegas 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

Las Vegas student-teacher ratio is 16.5:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

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 Las Vegas is typically wider than the Las Vegas-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Union Elementary 65
2. Don Cecilio Martinez Elementary 60
3. Tony Serna Jr. Elementary 59
4. Memorial Middle 56
5. Luis E. Armijo Elementary 55
6. Wlv Family Partnership 46
7. Los Ninos Elementary 42
8. Sierra Vista Elementary 41
9. Robertson High 39
10. West Las Vegas Middle School 38
11. West Las Vegas High School 34
12. Rio Gallinas School 33

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Las Vegas

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 Rio Gallinas School 39.8/100
  2. 2 Robertson High 20.8/100
  3. 3 Memorial Middle 18.8/100
  4. 4 Wlv Family Partnership 18.7/100
  5. 5 West Las Vegas High School 18.5/100

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Which Las Vegas school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Union Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Las Vegas schools in this federal-data comparison at 65/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Las Vegas, NM? ▼

Las Vegas has 12 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,583 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.5:1.

Other Cities in New Mexico

Albuquerque
195 schools
Las Cruces
45 schools
Santa Fe
41 schools
Rio Rancho
23 schools
Roswell
22 schools
Farmington
20 schools

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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.