At $20,728 per pupil, Southwest Secondary Learning Center ranks #41 of 143 New Mexico districts by per-pupil spending (New Mexico districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
147
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$20,728
Per-Pupil Spending
High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Southwest Secondary Learning Center operates 1 public schools serving 147 students, placing it among the smallest districts in New Mexico. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high 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 Bernalillo County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $20,728 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 13.3% local, 81.5% state, and 5.3% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
a 144:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 8.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 41.7% White, 40.3% Hispanic or Latino, 2.8% African American across the district's schools.
Southwest Secondary Learning Center accounts for 98.0% of all Southwest Secondary Learning Center student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Southwest Secondary Learning Center a distant remainder — means Southwest Secondary Learning Center-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Southwest Secondary Learning Center student-counselor ratio is 144:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.
Southwest Secondary Learning Center chronic absenteeism rate is 8.3% — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Southwest Secondary Learning Center's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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