Best Public Schools in Hurley, NM

Hurley, New Mexico is served by a single school: Hurley Elementary, a PK–5 campus at 300 Carasco Ave with about 114 students. There is no middle school, high school, or alternative school listed for the area, so families here have one local option for the elementary years. The school belongs to Cobre Consolidated Schools, a district that ranks 51st of 87 in the state (41st percentile, 2 stars). Every student at Hurley Elementary qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, and the student–teacher ratio is 8.9.

What makes this school notable is how far it sits above its own district. In 2025–2026, Hurley Elementary ranked 18th of 346 ranked New Mexico schools — the 95th percentile, with 5 stars — after three straight years of improvement (85th, then 91st, then 95th percentile). Its all-grades language arts proficiency of 88.37 is roughly double the district (45.65) and the state (44.66). Math comes in at 37.21, well above the district's 18.16 and the state's 27.85. Fifth-grade science is the strongest single subject at 75, more than double the state's 32.24 and well above the district's 46.03. The school beats district and state figures on every reported metric, even though two grade-level math scores are suppressed by the state for privacy and cannot be evaluated.

Two things are worth watching. First, the school's gap between ELA and math is about 51 points — roughly three times the state's 16.81-point gap — so math, while solid, is the relative weak spot. Second, results moved in different directions last year: ELA rose 16.63 points and fifth-grade science rose 13.89 points, while math fell 10.62 points. With only about 43 students tested across grades 3–5, a single student shifts the all-grades rate by roughly 2.3 points, so one year of movement is not yet a trend.