Summary:
Schools in Explore Academy Las Cruces consists of one school, Explore Academy Las Cruces, an elementary-classified campus serving grades K–8 with 599 students in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and its own single-school district, Explore Academy Las Cruces.
For parents comparing the school with New Mexico averages, science is the clearest strength. On 2025–2026 NM-ASR science, all-grade proficiency was 42.11% versus the state’s 33.62%, about 8.49 percentage points above state. Fifth-grade science was 46.34% versus 32.24%, and eighth-grade science was 39.73% versus 34.33%. Math is the most consistent weakness: all-grade NM-MSSA math was 20.42% versus the state’s 27.85%, and every reported grade was below the state average. Third-grade math is suppressed as under 20%, compared with the state’s 26.30%. ELA is uneven: all-grade ELA was 37.37% versus 44.66%, but fifth-grade ELA was above state at 48.78% versus 42.26%, while eighth-grade ELA was far below state at 27.40% versus 43.85%.
Year over year, ELA fell from 41.43% to 37.37%, math rose slightly from 18.29% to 20.42% but remained below state, and science dropped from 49.58% to 42.11% while staying above state. The school’s rank moved from 167 of 345, 52nd percentile, 3 stars in 2024–2025 to 206 of 346, 40th percentile, 2 stars in 2025–2026; the district is listed at rank 67 of 87, 23rd percentile, 1 star. Enrollment is 599, free/reduced lunch was 46.58% in 2024–2025, and the student-teacher ratio was 11.5. Science is only reported for grades 5 and 8, third-grade math is suppressed as under 20%, and 2024–2025 lacks grade-level detail.
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