Summary:
Tularosa Municipal Schools is a four-school New Mexico district serving PK–12 students — two elementary schools (grades PK–2 and 3–6), one middle school (7–8), and one high school (9–12) — with 883 students enrolled in a small-town setting. The district overall ranks 69th of 87 in the state, at the 21st percentile with 1 star, but that single rating hides wide differences between its schools. Reported free/reduced lunch rates are extremely high: 100% at Tularosa Intermediate, 99.67% at Tularosa High, and 98.7% at Tularosa Elementary. Tularosa Middle's free/reduced lunch figure is blank, so it is unknown — not a sign of lower poverty.
Two schools stand out positively. Tularosa Intermediate ranks 159th of 346 (54th percentile, 3 stars), up from the 32nd percentile the prior year, with all-grades ELA at 51.56% vs 44.66% state and math at 30.73% vs 27.85% state; 3rd and 5th grade ELA and 5th grade math are above state, while 4th grade ELA/math and 5th grade science are slightly below. Tularosa High improved to 66th of 132 (50th percentile, 3 stars) and posts a 91.4% graduation rate vs 80.6% state, though 11th grade math is only 12.86%, barely above the state's 12.72%. Tularosa Elementary's 2025–26 ELA proficiency of 48.65% beats both district and state averages, but its only rank history dates to 2004–06.
Tularosa Middle is the urgent concern, falling from 72nd percentile (4 stars) to 24th percentile (1 star) to 4th percentile (0 stars) in two years. Its all-grades ELA is 23.67% vs 44.66% state, math is 6.8% vs 27.85% state, and math is under 10% in 6th and 8th grades and under 20% in 7th grade. Class size does not track with outcomes here: the intermediate school has the largest student–teacher ratio (17.8) yet strong results, while the middle school has the smallest (8.3) and the weakest.
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