Taos Academy

Schools in the Taos Academy area include just one school: Taos Academy, a high school serving grades 5–12 with 251 students in Taos, New Mexico. It is classified as a high school, and the Taos Academy district contains only this one campus, so district figures and school figures are identical throughout the data. With only one school in the area, there is nothing to compare it against locally — the useful comparison is against New Mexico state averages.

Taos Academy is a 4-star school that has held 4 stars in each of the last three years and ranks in the top quartile of New Mexico schools — 30th of 132, the 77th percentile, in 2025–2026. Science is its clearest strength: all-grade proficiency is 57.35%, compared with the state's 33.4% on NM Combined and 33.62% on NM-ASR, and 11th-grade science reaches 75% versus roughly 34% statewide. The 2024–2025 graduation rate is 92.1%, about 11.5 percentage points above the state's 80.6%.

English language arts is above the state at every grade level shown, with all-grade proficiency at 54.08% versus 43.34% statewide and the strongest results in 6th grade (61.54%) and 11th grade (56.25%). Math is above the state as well — 32.65% on NM Combined versus 25.54% — but absolute proficiency is modest; 11th-grade math is 25%, though that is still double the state's 12.72%. Several grade-level math results (grades 5, 6, and 8) and 5th-grade science are suppressed by the state and should be treated as unknown, not as weakness. Results dipped slightly from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 in all three subjects, and because cohorts are small, percentages can swing widely from year to year.