Summary:
Hobbs Municipal Schools is a southeastern New Mexico district serving about 9,350 students across 17 schools — 13 elementary, 3 middle, and one high school — and though the district itself is rated 1 star and ranked 68th of 87 in the state at the 22nd percentile, its individual schools range from the 12th to the 69th percentile. The strongest schools are Mills Elementary (108th of 346, 69th percentile, 3 stars), Taylor Elementary (60th percentile, 3 stars, district-best all-grades ELA at 55.21% and 3rd-grade ELA at 69.09%), Coronado Elementary (53rd percentile, 3 stars, top all-grades math at 40.84% and 5th-grade math at 59.7%), and Sanger Elementary (55th percentile, 3 stars). Among older students, Houston Middle School is the strongest middle school, and Hobbs High graduates 87.4% of students, above the state's 80.6%.
At the other end, Will Rogers Elementary ranks 305th of 346 (12th percentile), Jefferson Elementary sits at the 20th percentile, Heizer Middle School at the 20th percentile, and Highland Middle School at the 26th percentile, with 8th-grade math at 7.69%. Booker T. Washington Elementary has the lowest available all-grades math at 11.67%, though many of its grade-level scores are suppressed by the state and should be treated as unknown rather than zero.
Science is the district's clearest shared weakness: elementary, middle, and high school science results all trail state levels, and even the best elementary science score, Coronado's 5th-grade 28.36%, falls below the state's 31.97%. Free/reduced lunch and student-teacher ratios do not track neatly with performance — Taylor serves 66.2% low-income students yet posts the district's top ELA, while the lowest-ratio school has the weakest math. Grade-level bright spots cluster in a few schools, and several campuses show volatile year-to-year rank changes.
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