Animas Elementary

Animas Elementary is a small, high-poverty K–5 school at 1612 Hutton Ave in Farmington, New Mexico, serving 345 students — the smallest enrollment among the elementary schools in Farmington Municipal Schools, a district that itself ranks 62nd of 87 districts statewide (29th percentile).

On the 2025–26 statewide list, Animas Elementary ranked 247th of 346 ranked elementary schools (29th percentile, 1 star) — bottom third of the state, and exactly at its own district's percentile. The bigger story is the long slide: in 2015–16 the school was 128th of 410 (69th percentile, 3 stars), a top-third performer. A decade later it is a bottom-third performer, a swing of roughly 40 percentile points. For context, nearby Country Club Elementary sits at the 92nd percentile and Northeast Elementary and Ladera Del Norte Elementary at the 73rd, while Bluffview Elementary, McCormick Elementary, Apache Elementary and McKinley Elementary all rank below Animas.

Relative strengths: ELA proficiency is 41.21%, essentially level with the district and up from 32% two years ago, and 5th-grade math (32.31%) is close to the state rate. Its student–teacher ratio of 13.2 is the second-lowest among same-district peers, though small classes have not produced an academic edge. Weaknesses: math (22.42%) trails the district's 27.36%, and 3rd-grade math is roughly half the district rate, with results climbing steadily by grade. Fifth-grade science is the sharpest outlier — 15.38%, about half the district and state rates and the lowest in the local area, below even schools that are weaker across the board. Effectiveness also varies widely by student group: the gap between the school's highest- and lowest-performing groups spans roughly 60–70 percentile points, with English learners and male students near the bottom of the state distribution.