Nm Corrections operates 8 public schools serving 34 students, placing it among the smaller districts in New Mexico. The school portfolio breaks down into 8 combined schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Santa Fe County.
and 63.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 73.9% Hispanic or Latino, 20.4% White, 5.7% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Lae County Corrections, with a diversity index of 49.0/100.
Its largest campus is Northwestern Nm Corrections, enrolling 8 students (27% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Central Nm Corrections, at 1 students, a 8x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 67.6% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (34 to 11 students), per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Northwestern Nm Corrections accounts for 23.5% of all Nm Corrections student enrollment
That concentration means Nm Corrections-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates 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.
Nm Corrections school enrollment varies 8.0× across entities
Nm Corrections school enrollment ranges from 1 students (lowest) to 8 students (highest), a spread of 7 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Nm Corrections chronic absenteeism rate is 63.3% — 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.