Summary:
Santa Rosa Consolidated Schools in New Mexico serves 572 students across five schools—two elementary, two middle, and one high school—in a very high-poverty area where free/reduced lunch rates exceed 95% at every school. The district overall is rated low (rank 77 of 87, 1 star, 11th percentile), but that average hides big differences between schools. For example, Santa Rosa Middle is a 4-star, 74th-percentile school, while Santa Rosa High is at the 6th percentile with 0 stars.
Santa Rosa Middle stands out with consistently high performance for three years. Its 2025–2026 proficiency is well above district and state in ELA (61.11%), math (28.89%), and 8th-grade science (51.72%). Santa Rosa Elementary is also solid, with 3 stars and above-state results in ELA (53.19%) and math (29.79%). In contrast, Santa Rosa High has a strong graduation rate (91.7% vs. state 80.6%) but very low test proficiency: 11th-grade ELA 22.44%, math under 5%, and science 19.23%. Rita A. Marquez Elementary (2nd percentile, 0 stars) and Anton Chico Middle (10th percentile, 1 star) are currently low-performing, though both had much stronger results in earlier years.
Math is the district-wide weak spot: only Santa Rosa Elementary and Santa Rosa Middle exceed the state math average. In every school, ELA outperforms math. The middle school gap is extreme: Santa Rosa Middle and Anton Chico Middle serve the same grades and both have 100% free/reduced lunch, but Santa Rosa Middle far outperforms Anton Chico—even though Anton Chico has a smaller student-teacher ratio (5.5 vs. 11.6). Similarly, Santa Rosa Elementary outperforms Rita A. Marquez Elementary despite similar poverty and class sizes. Note that some scores are suppressed (unknown) or bounded (under 5%, under 10%), not exact zeros. Small enrollments at some schools mean year-to-year results can swing widely, so look at trends over time.
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