Summary
Crownpoint Elementary is a PK–5 school serving 281 students in the rural community of Crownpoint, NM, part of Gallup-McKinley City Schools. Its most recent statewide rank is 199th of 346 (42nd percentile, 2 stars), placing it above the district's own 31st percentile but still in the lower half of New Mexico elementary schools. The headline is steady improvement: after ranking in the 5th–7th percentile with 0 stars from 2014–15 through 2017–18, the school earned 1 star in 2021–22 and 2022–23 and reached 2 stars in 2023–24 and 2025–26.
Math is Crownpoint's relative strength. In 2025–26, all-grade math was 27.34% on NM Combined — above the district's 23.81% and the state's 25.54% — and 27.2% on NM-MSSA, essentially matching the state's 27.85%. English language arts lags: 36.72% on NM Combined versus 43.34% statewide, and 37.6% on NM-MSSA versus 44.66% statewide, making ELA the school's clearest academic need. Fifth grade is a bright spot — 5th-grade science reached 39.02% on NM Combined and 40% on NM-ASR, well above district and state, and 5th-grade ELA and math also beat both. Fourth grade is weaker: ELA was 30% versus 50.36% statewide, and math was 23.33% versus 27.24%. The state suppresses the 4th-grade NM-MSSA math score.
Among nearby schools, Crownpoint clearly outperforms Thoreau Elementary, the only neighbor with comparable achievement data, including a wide 5th-grade gap (43.9% versus 14.89% in language arts). Crownpoint also has the lowest free/reduced lunch rate in the area at 84.7% in 2024–25, compared with 89.97% at Thoreau, 95.16% at Tse'ii'ahi' Community School, 95.59% at Mariano Lake Community School, 94.83% at Dibe Yazhi Habitiin Olta' Inc., and 98.92% at T'iis Ts'ozi Bi'Olta' Community School. Its 2023–24 student-teacher ratio of 14.6 is more favorable than several neighbors', though higher than Mariano Lake's 10.4. The school also posts strong rankings for several student groups, including English Language Learner students (71st percentile, 4 stars in 2024–25), low-income students (67th percentile, 3 stars in 2025–26), Native American students (53rd percentile, 3 stars in 2025–26), and female students (71st percentile, 4 stars in 2025–26).
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