Summary:
Tucumcari Public Schools in New Mexico contains exactly one middle school, Tucumcari Middle, which serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 213 students at 1000 South 5th St in Tucumcari. The district overall ranks 59th of 87 in the state, at the 32nd percentile with a 2-star rating. Nearly all students — 99.53% — qualify for free or reduced lunch in 2024–2025, and the student-teacher ratio is a moderate 13.6:1. Because Tucumcari Middle is the only middle school in the district, there is no within-district peer to compare it against; the useful comparisons are to state averages and to the school's own recent history.
Mathematics is the clearest challenge. All-grade math proficiency is 14.22–14.36, well below state averages of 25.54–27.85, meaning the school is performing at roughly 52%–56% of the state average. Sixth-grade math is about 14% proficient against a state average near 32% — the largest gap — and 8th-grade math, at 11.94, is the lowest proficiency of all. ELA is uneven rather than uniformly weak: 6th grade scores 45.31–46.15, above the state average, 7th grade sits about 10 points below state, and 8th grade is essentially at state. Eighth-grade science, at 32.84, is within about 1.5 points of the state and far stronger than 8th-grade math, a nearly 21-point gap within the same grade.
The trend line is the biggest concern. The school's state rank slipped from 64th percentile and 3 stars in 2023–2024 to 48th percentile and 2 stars in 2024–2025, then to 35th percentile and 2 stars in 2025–2026 — a 29-point percentile drop in two years, landing it near the district's own 32nd percentile standing. All-grade ELA fell 9.47 points year over year while the state rose slightly, and math stayed essentially flat as the state improved, widening the gap.
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