Summary:
Schools in Loving, New Mexico are served by Loving Municipal Schools, a three-school district with one elementary, one middle, and one high school serving 734 students in total. The district is ranked 47th of 87 in New Mexico, at the 46th percentile with a 2-star rating — but that mid-pack rating hides three very different schools. Poverty is high across all of them: free/reduced lunch rates are 95.21% at Loving Elementary, 95.11% at Loving High, and 83.12% at Loving Middle. Class sizes are similar everywhere, with student-teacher ratios of 12.7 at the elementary and high schools and 11.7 at the middle school.
Loving Middle is the academic standout: a 4-star school ranked 56th of 191, at the 71st percentile, with all-grade ELA at 58.5% and math at 35.37%, both well above the state’s 43.34% and 25.54%. Its 6th and 7th grades are especially strong, while 8th grade sits closer to average. Loving Elementary rebounded to 65th percentile and 3 stars, ranked 120th of 346, with ELA at 52.26% — comfortably above the state’s 43.34%. Its math is roughly at the state level overall (25.48% vs. 25.54%), but 4th-grade math is under 20%, grade 3 math is a strength at 35.19%, and 5th-grade science is strong at 40.38% vs. the state’s 31.97%.
Loving High is rated 1 star and ranked 103rd of 132, at the 22nd percentile, down from the 47th percentile in 2023–24. Its 11th-grade ELA is 22.22% vs. the state’s 36.78%, all-grade math is under 20%, and 11th-grade science fell from 38.3% to 28.57%. Yet its 2024–25 graduation rate is 89.9%, well above the state’s 80.6% — a school getting students to the finish line even as test scores lag.
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