Summary:
Socorro Consolidated Schools serves about 1,318 students across six schools — four elementary, one middle, and one high school — in a high-poverty New Mexico district that ranks 43rd of 87 statewide at the 51st percentile with a 3-star district rating.
Academic performance varies dramatically from school to school. Cottonwood Valley Charter is the standout: 81st percentile, 4 stars, with Language Arts at 61.11 and Math at 37.96, well above district (39.94 and 24.03) and state (43.34 and 25.54). Midway Elementary is close behind at 79th percentile and 4 stars, and its 5th grade Science score of 52.94 is far above district and state. At the other end, Socorro Middle School is the district's most urgent concern: 6th percentile, 0 stars, with Language Arts at 22.87, Math at 13.23, and 8th grade Science at 17.86 — all far below district and state, and its 8th grade Math is under 20%. Notably, both Cottonwood and Midway have 100% free/reduced lunch yet still outperform, so poverty alone does not determine results, and class size doesn't explain the pattern either — Cottonwood has the lowest student-teacher ratio (11.1) while Midway has the highest (18.9), yet both thrive.
Among the others, Socorro High has improved to the 49th percentile and 3 stars, with 11th grade Math and Science slightly above state, though its 75.8 graduation rate trails the state's 80.6. Parkview Elementary, the largest elementary with 382 students, sits at 39th percentile and 2 stars, with strong 4th grade Language Arts but weak 5th grade Science. San Antonio Elementary has no 2025-26 rank and its Math and Science scores are suppressed by the state, so those results are unknown rather than poor.
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