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Taos, New Mexico - 1 schools
77
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
-
Per-Pupil Spending
High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Vista Grande High School operates 1 public schools serving 77 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 Taos County.
. Demographically, the student body averages 59.4% Hispanic or Latino, 13.0% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Vista Grande High School, enrolling 69 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Vista Grande High School accounts for 89.6% of all Vista Grande High School student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Vista Grande High School a distant remainder — means Vista Grande High School-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.
Vista Grande High School 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.