Summary:
Tohatchi, New Mexico is a small rural community in McKinley County where four schools serve roughly 1,030 students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. Three belong to Gallup-McKinley City Schools: Tohatchi Elementary (PK–5), Tohatchi Middle (6–8), and Tohatchi High (9–12). The fourth, Ch'ooshgai Community School (K–8), forms its own district. About 85% of students community-wide qualify for free or reduced lunch.
Tohatchi High posts the clearest above-benchmark result: an 84.3% graduation rate, better than the district's 75.8% and the state's 80.6%. Tohatchi Elementary shows the biggest turnaround — its state rank percentile rose 17th to 16th to 47th and it gained a star, with English Language Arts proficiency climbing from 27.36% to 40.37%. Its 3rd graders are a standout at 55.17% proficient in ELA and 37.93% in math. Tohatchi Middle lifted math from 17.18% to 24.59%, and its 8th grade math result of 26.32% beats both district and state — the only middle-school grade-level result here to do so.
The recurring weaknesses are literacy and science. Tohatchi Elementary science is under 20% proficient, and its 5th grade ELA trails the state by about 16 points even as its 3rd graders outpace the state by double digits. With small cohorts, single-year swings can be large: Tohatchi High's 11th grade science fell from 47.37% to 27.03%. High school math, at 10.81%, is the lowest measure in the data, and one 4th grade math figure is suppressed by the state. Most notably, Ch'ooshgai Community School — 208 students with 98.56% on free/reduced lunch — publishes no achievement results.
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