Summary
Cuba Elementary is a PK–5 elementary school in rural Cuba, NM, enrolling 298 students as part of Cuba Independent Schools, where economic need is nearly universal — 99.66% of students received free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-2025, and the student-teacher ratio has been steady at about 13.8 students per teacher.
Statewide, Cuba Elementary ranked 303 of 346 schools in 2025-2026 (12th percentile, 1 star), a step up from 407 of 413 in 2023-2024 (1st percentile, 0 stars) and 435 of 435 in 2022-2023 (0th percentile, 0 stars). The only nearby school in the data is Gallina Elementary, about 15 miles away in Gallina and part of Jemez Mountain Public Schools. Gallina is much smaller (47 students versus Cuba's 298) and has a lower student-teacher ratio (10.4 versus 13.8), but its current school-level test scores are suppressed, so no direct comparison is possible; its much stronger rankings date back roughly a decade.
Cuba's 2025-2026 proficiency results are its best in the recent data, yet still trail the state. English language arts was 23.21% proficient, above the district's 21.26% but below the state's 43.34%; math was 9.82%, above the district's 6.98% but below the state's 25.54%; science was under 20%, versus 8.82% for the district and 33.4% for the state. Third-grade math, at 25.93%, is essentially at the state average of 26.24% and is the clearest bright spot, while 5th-grade ELA, 5th-grade math, and 5th-grade science were each under 20%, below their state averages. Subgroup effectiveness rankings remain very low, though low-income students improved to the 14th percentile with 1 star in 2025-2026, up from the 0th percentile in the two prior years.
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