Middle Schools in Estancia Municipal Schools

There is exactly one middle school in Estancia Municipal Schools: Estancia Middle, which serves grades 7–8 at 807 W. Hopewell in Estancia, New Mexico, with 99 students enrolled. Because it is the only middle school in the district, there is no other local school to compare it with, and its grade-level results also serve as the district's middle school results. The district as a whole ranks 40th of 87 districts statewide, at the 54th percentile with 3 stars.

Estancia Middle's own results are more mixed. In 2025–2026 it ranked 131st of 191 ranked middle schools, at the 31st percentile with 2 stars. That is a sharp drop from 2024–2025, when it ranked 72nd of 192, at the 62nd percentile with 3 stars. In 2025–2026, all-grade English language arts was 30.99% proficient, below the district's 42.80% and the state's 43.34%. All-grade math was 19.44%, well below both the district's 30.20% and the state's 25.54% on NM Combined, and below the district's 34.12% and the state's 27.85% on NM-MSSA. The single largest gap is 7th-grade ELA, at 21.88% versus the state's 46.63% and 46.99%. Eighth-grade results are much closer to state averages: 8th-grade ELA was 38.46% versus roughly 43.6% to 43.9%, 8th-grade math was 17.95% versus about 20.3% to 20.5%, and 8th-grade science was 32.50% versus roughly 34.2% to 34.3%.

Two pieces of context matter for parents. First, 100% of students were eligible for free or reduced lunch in 2024–2025, and with only 99 students in grades 7–8, small cohorts can make percentages swing widely from year to year. Second, the school has shown it can perform above the state: in 2024–2025, math was 32.99% versus the state's 26.81%, and 8th-grade science was 41.18% versus the state's 34.46%. The 2025–2026 declines — ELA down 10.25 points, math down 13.55 points, and 8th-grade science down 8.68 points — indicate that performance has not been sustained. Overall, the closest areas to state averages are 8th-grade ELA, 8th-grade math, and 8th-grade science, while 7th-grade ELA and overall math are the most pressing concerns.