At $24,364 per pupil, La Academia Dolores Huerta ranks #26 of 143 New Mexico districts by per-pupil spending (New Mexico districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
La Academia Dolores Huerta operates 1 public schools serving 66 students, placing it among the smallest districts in New Mexico. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 middle schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Doña Ana County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $24,364 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 143 New Mexico districts by per-pupil spending. See how New Mexico compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 3.7% local, 78.8% state, and 17.5% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 0.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Use the school table below to drill into any individual campus for its own demographic and resource profile.
Its largest campus is La Academia Dolores Huerta, enrolling 66 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 3% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (66 to 68 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 3.5 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $1,692,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 49.5% went to instruction, 42.4% to support services, and 5% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
La Academia Dolores Huerta accounts for 100.0% of all La Academia Dolores Huerta student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of La Academia Dolores Huerta a distant remainder — means La Academia Dolores Huerta-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: middle. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
La Academia Dolores Huerta reports 100.0% 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.
La Academia Dolores Huerta chronic absenteeism rate is 0.0% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.