Summary:
There is one school in the Tierra Adentro area: Tierra Adentro, a high school in Albuquerque serving grades 6–12 with 257 students, and because it is also the only school in the Tierra Adentro district, the district figures and school figures are essentially the same. The school serves a small, high-poverty population — 100% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and has a low student-teacher ratio of 9.5, meaning each teacher works with roughly nine to ten students.
Science and language arts are the school's clearest strengths. In 2025–2026, science proficiency was 49.25% compared with 33.40% statewide, and 8th-grade science reached 53.85% against 34.19% statewide. Language arts was also above the state average at 47.79% versus 43.34%, with 8th-grade ELA at 58.97% and 11th-grade ELA at 50%. Science improved sharply, rising from 27.50% in 2024–2025 — below the state that year — to 49.25%, while language arts stayed above state in both years. The school's statewide rank also rose from the 45th percentile (2 stars) in 2024–2025 to the 68th percentile (3 stars) in 2025–2026.
Mathematics is the main academic challenge: 15.04% proficiency overall versus 25.54% statewide, roughly 10–11 points below state, with 8th-grade math under 20%. The graduation rate of 66.8% trails New Mexico's 80.6% by 13.8 points, even though several test measures exceed state averages. Many math results and some grade-level results are suppressed by the state and should be treated as unknown rather than as zeros or as evidence of weakness — likely a consequence of the school's small size.
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