Summary:
Fort Sumner, New Mexico has three public schools serving grades PK–12 in the Fort Sumner Municipal Schools district — Fort Sumner Elementary (PK–5, 124 students), Fort Sumner Middle (6–8, 70 students), and Fort Sumner High (9–12, 89 students). All three sit at the same address on Sumner Ave, forming a small, unified PK–12 system of 283 students total. The district holds 3 stars and ranks 37 of 87 in New Mexico, at the 57th percentile.
Fort Sumner High is the current standout, ranking in the 67th percentile and beating state averages in every headline subject: 11th-grade ELA is 55.26% proficient versus state 36.78%, SAT ELA 54.05% versus 37.07%, science 42.11% versus 34.02%, and math 21.05% versus 12.72% — though math proficiency in absolute terms remains low. Fort Sumner Middle shines in ELA (7th grade at 61.11% versus state 46.63–46.99%), but 8th-grade science falls below state at 25.93% and 26.92% versus roughly 34%. Fort Sumner Elementary keeps math above state at 32% versus 25.54%, following an especially strong prior year when ELA reached 69.23% versus state 44.19%.
The biggest district-wide change is the slide from 4 stars at all three schools in 2023–2024 to 3 stars in 2025–2026; Elementary fell hardest, from the 87th percentile to the 58th, while the High School held up best. Staffing patterns differ notably: Middle has a 15.9 student–teacher ratio, about double the High School’s 8.3 and above Elementary’s 9.3. Free/reduced lunch rates are 65.32% at Elementary, 57.3% at High, and 55.71% at Middle. Some figures — Elementary 4th-grade ELA/math, Middle 6th/8th-grade math, and High School 2024–2025 graduation data — are suppressed by the state and should be treated as unknown, not as weaknesses.
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