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Ojo Caliente, New Mexico - 4 schools
An equity score of 60/100 ranks Mesa Vista Consolidated Schools #34 of 98 districts in New Mexico (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $19,210 per pupil, Mesa Vista Consolidated Schools ranks #33 of 141 New Mexico districts by per-pupil spending (New Mexico districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
246
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
$19,210
Per-Pupil Spending
High, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Mesa Vista Consolidated Schools operates 4 public schools serving 246 students, placing it among the smallest districts in New Mexico. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high, 1 combined, 1 elementary, 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 Rio Arriba County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $19,210 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 141 New Mexico districts by per-pupil spending. See how New Mexico compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 15.9% local, 70.9% state, and 13.3% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 60/100, ranked #34 of 98 in New Mexico against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 288:1 student-counselor ratio, somewhat above the 250:1 ASCA recommendation, and 44.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 90.0% Hispanic or Latino, 6.7% White across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Ojo Caliente Elementary, with a diversity index of 25.3/100.
Its largest campus is Mesa Vista High, enrolling 93 students (35% of the district's total enrollment).
Mesa Vista High accounts for 35.5% of all Mesa Vista Consolidated Schools student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Mesa Vista Consolidated Schools-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Mesa Vista Consolidated Schools has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 100.0% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is a supermajority of the population — well past the 75% concentration-grant threshold that unlocks extra funding on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Mesa Vista Consolidated Schools student-counselor ratio is 288:1 — near the typical range (US average ~408) — within the typical range for U.S. public districts
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Variation between sub-units within Mesa Vista Consolidated Schools is typically wider than the Mesa Vista Consolidated Schools-aggregate figure suggests.
Mesa Vista Consolidated Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 44.0% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Comparisons are relative to Mesa Vista Consolidated Schools's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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