Crownpoint High

Crownpoint High is a 9–12 school in Crownpoint, NM, serving 279 students in Gallup-McKinley City Schools. The district ranks 60th of 87 in New Mexico (31st percentile, 2 stars), but Crownpoint High’s own record is stronger: it ranked 62nd of 132 (53rd percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026 and 60th of 131 (54th percentile, 3 stars) in 2024–2025. That is a major turnaround from 2023–2024, when it was 136th of 172 (21st percentile, 1 star) and in the lower part of the state rankings. Now it is slightly above the state median.

Compared with nearby Thoreau High, 19.41 miles away and in Gallup-McKinley City Schools, Crownpoint High is much stronger overall. Thoreau High ranks 127th of 132 (4th percentile, 0 stars) in 2025–2026, while Crownpoint High has 3 stars. In 11th-grade English language arts, Crownpoint High scored 36.84% on NM Combined Language Arts, essentially matching the state’s 36.78% and far above Thoreau High’s 13.92% and the district’s 23.96%. In science, Crownpoint High scored 38.6%, above the state’s 34.02%–34.27% and Thoreau High’s 20.25%. Math is less clear because some scores are suppressed as bounds: Crownpoint High is under 20% for all-grades math, while Thoreau High is under 10%; these are not zeros or exact rates.

Graduation is a watch point. In 2024–2025, Crownpoint High’s graduation rate was 76.0%, slightly above the district’s 75.8% but below the state’s 80.6% and Thoreau High’s 78.9%; earlier years included 93.6% in 2020–2021 and 81.6% in 2022–2023. Subgroup results are a relative strength: in 2025–2026 one student group ranked 4th of 18 (78th percentile, 4 stars) and low-income students ranked 23rd of 89 (74th percentile, 4 stars). A gender gap also appears: female students ranked at the 65th percentile (3 stars) and male students at the 38th percentile (2 stars). Overall, Crownpoint High is a small, high-poverty school that has recently improved and now performs near state average in ELA and science; math and graduation consistency are watch points.