Summary:
Moriarty, New Mexico has six public schools — three elementary, two middle, and one high school — all within the Moriarty-Edgewood School District, which serves 2,245 students and ranks 46th of 87 New Mexico districts (47th percentile, 2 stars). Nearly every student at every school qualifies for free or reduced lunch (about 99–100%), so poverty levels do not separate the stronger schools from the weaker ones in this area.
South Mountain Elementary is the standout: 5 stars, ranked 31st of 346 elementary schools (91st percentile), and consistently top-tier for three years. Its 2025–26 proficiency — 69.93% in ELA, 53.59% in math, and 59.62% in 5th-grade science — is more than 26 points above state averages in each subject. Edgewood Middle is the strongest middle school, earning 4 stars and the 70th percentile with scores above the state in all subjects, but its rank has slipped from the 90th to the 78th to the 70th percentile over three years. Route 66 Elementary is improving, rising to the 58th percentile and 3 stars; its 5th-grade science (46.15%) far exceeds the state's 31.97%, though its 3rd-grade math is reported as under 20%.
Moriarty High is a mixed story: 3 stars and the 60th percentile, above the state in ELA (46.67%) and science (46.67%), but math is 11.11% versus the state's 12.72%, and its graduation rate of 69.6% trails the state's 80.6% by 11 points. Moriarty Elementary (1 star, 17th percentile) and Moriarty Middle (1 star, 21st percentile) are the most urgent: South Mountain outperforms Moriarty Elementary by about 33.8 points in ELA, 33.4 in math, and 42.0 in science, while Moriarty Middle trails Edgewood Middle by roughly 25.6 points in ELA, 17.4 in math, and 23.1 in science, with 8th-grade math under 10%. Overall, the district average masks a spread from 1 to 5 stars.
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