Mission Avenue Elementary

Mission Avenue Elementary is a PK–5 school at 725 Mission Av NE in Albuquerque serving 336 students in Albuquerque Public Schools, with 100% of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. It ranks 226th of 346 New Mexico elementary schools in 2025-2026 — the 35th percentile, a 2-star rating. The school's story is steady recovery: a 16th-percentile, 1-star low in 2021-2022 has climbed to the 21st, 27th, 32nd and now 35th percentile, though it remains below its own 2014-2015 peak of 3 stars.

Proficiency is close to district and state. In 2025-2026, 40.6% of students met the ELA standard (district 44.6%, state 44.7%) and 26.6% met math (district 27.7%, state 27.9%) — gaps that have shrunk sharply from roughly 10 points in ELA and 13 in math two years ago. Math is the standout: Mission's 26.6% is more than ten points above MacArthur Elementary (16.2%), which has nearly identical ELA results, and well ahead of Los Ranchos Elementary (14.1%), Hodgin Elementary (9.7%), Bel-Air Elementary (8.9%) and Gov Bent Elementary (7.5%). Since free-lunch rates are essentially identical at all of these campuses, those differences reflect school practice. Nearby Alvarado Elementary, with the same student profile, reaches 71.1% ELA and 32.0% math.

Mission's weakest area is measured effectiveness for two groups: female students rank at the 13th percentile (1 star) versus 32nd for male students — a roughly 19-point gap persisting across three years — and the low-income subgroup fell from the 34th to the 18th percentile last year even as the school improved overall. Third-grade ELA (35.6%) trails the state by nearly 9 points, and math proficiency is flat across grades 3, 4 and 5 (26.7%, 26.5%, 26.5%) while district and state rise by 5th grade, leaving 5th-grade math more than 7 points behind. Strengths include English language learners, served better than 65% of New Mexico schools (3 stars), and 5th-grade science (30.6%), which holds at state level.