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Ramah Elementary

Public Grades PK, KG-5
257th
SchoolDigger Rank ?
of 346 New Mexico Elementary Schools
Better than 26% of New Mexico elementary schools
Summary

Ramah Elementary is a small PK–5 school in Ramah, NM, serving 223 students in the Gallup-McKinley City Schools district, a rural area where the nearest elementary schools are David Skeet Elementary and Shiwi Ts'ana Elementary. The district ranks 60th of 87 in New Mexico (31st percentile, 2 stars), placing Ramah in a below-average but not lowest-ranked district. The school serves a high-poverty population: 87.89% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025, down from 95.95% in 2023–2024 and 100% in 2022–2023.

Ramah’s recent history shows a sharp decline followed by a partial rebound. It ranked in the 60th percentile statewide (3 stars) in 2018–2019, fell to the 1st percentile (0 stars) in 2024–2025—342nd of 345 schools, with 18.7% proficient in ELA and 12.2% in math—and recovered to the 26th percentile (1 star) in 2025–2026. ELA is the clearest weakness: all-grades Language Arts proficiency is 26.13% versus 36.49% district and 43.34% state, and below both David Skeet Elementary (33.64%) and Shiwi Ts'ana Elementary (34.88%). Math is comparatively stronger at 23.21%, nearly matching the district’s 23.81%, far above Shiwi Ts’ana’s 12.96%, but still below David Skeet’s 26.36%. Fifth-grade science is 24.14%, above Shiwi Ts’ana’s 23.17% and David Skeet’s under-20% result, though below district and state averages.

Subgroup results are uneven. With nearly 88% of students from low-income families, the low-SES subgroup’s ranking—1st percentile in 2024–2025 and 28th percentile in both 2023–2024 and 2025–2026—is a major concern; English learners ranked 25th percentile in 2023–2024. The student-teacher ratio fell from 17.7 to 5.2 in 2024–2025, but that same year had the lowest scores, so it may reflect staffing or reporting changes. Some 2025–2026 grade-level ELA and math results are suppressed by the state, meaning they are unknown, not zero. The state test table also includes 6th-grade rows even though the school profile lists PK–5. Key priorities are ELA improvement, targeted support for low-income and English-learner students, and understanding the ratio shift.

223
Students ?
5.2
Student/teacher ratio ?
$15,427
Per pupil spending ?
87.9%
Free/reduced lunch eligible (2024-25) ?
All students in New Mexico receive free school meals.
 27 Lewis St
       Ramah, NM  87321

(505) 721-3700

District: Gallup-McKinley City Schools


Students who attend Ramah Elementary usually attend:

High:    Ramah High
Racial breakdown:

American Indian:
57.8%
White:
17.0%
Hispanic:
15.7%
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At a glance
▲ Ranking trend: Improving — 1st percentile in 2015 → 26th in 2026
Strengths
✓Ranking is trending up — up 25 percentile points since 2015
✓Small classes — about 5 students per teacher
Worth a look
!Test scores below the New Mexico average (25% vs 36% meeting standards)
!English Language Arts scores 18 pts below the New Mexico average
!Near the bottom of Gallup-McKinley City Schools's ranking
Students meeting standards (2025-2026) ?
This school25%
District avg33%
New Mexico avg36%
257th of 346
New Mexico public elementary schools ?
Bottom 26%▲ up 11 pts since 2016
From bottom 15% (2016) to bottom 26% (2026)
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★★★★★
SchoolDigger rating ?
13th of 16Elementary Schools in the Gallup-McKinley City Schools
60th of 87Gallup-McKinley City Schools among New Mexico districts
Statewide rank percentile over time (100 = the top-ranked school in the state; click a legend item to add a student group)
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All Students

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankNew Mexico percentileRating
202626.7257 of 34625.7%★☆☆☆☆
20257.6342 of 3450.9%☆☆☆☆☆
202426.0297 of 41328.1%★☆☆☆☆
202323.7352 of 43519.1%★☆☆☆☆
202230.7273 of 42035.0%★★☆☆☆
201953.2159 of 39659.8%★★★☆☆
201846.2180 of 38353.0%★★★☆☆
201740.1208 of 37444.4%★★☆☆☆
201621.5350 of 41014.6%★☆☆☆☆
201511.5415 of 4211.4%☆☆☆☆☆
201411.8423 of 4424.3%☆☆☆☆☆
201318.0364 of 41211.7%★☆☆☆☆
201218.0346 of 39813.1%★☆☆☆☆
201127.5310 of 40222.9%★☆☆☆☆
201023.9347 of 41917.2%★☆☆☆☆
200930.0316 of 41123.1%★☆☆☆☆
200811.6387 of 4054.4%☆☆☆☆☆
200710.1381 of 3984.3%☆☆☆☆☆
200619.7344 of 39011.8%★☆☆☆☆
200521.4327 of 38915.9%★☆☆☆☆

English Language Learner

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankNew Mexico percentileRating
202426.7168 of 22324.7%★☆☆☆☆
202350.1101 of 19147.1%★★☆☆☆
202234.0144 of 20329.1%★☆☆☆☆

Female

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankNew Mexico percentileRating
202428.6270 of 39832.2%★★☆☆☆
202319.4345 of 39011.5%★☆☆☆☆
201966.588 of 34374.3%★★★★☆
201846.3166 of 33951.0%★★★☆☆

Low Socio Economic Status

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankNew Mexico percentileRating
202632.4184 of 25628.1%★☆☆☆☆
20257.7322 of 3250.9%☆☆☆☆☆
202429.6258 of 35627.5%★☆☆☆☆
202326.2335 of 42621.4%★☆☆☆☆
202236.1228 of 41044.4%★★☆☆☆
201966.084 of 36176.7%★★★★☆
201855.5131 of 35663.2%★★★☆☆

Male

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankNew Mexico percentileRating
202425.4291 of 39726.7%★☆☆☆☆
202320.3348 of 41415.9%★☆☆☆☆
202232.6227 of 39242.1%★★☆☆☆
201930.5240 of 33728.8%★☆☆☆☆

Native American

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankNew Mexico percentileRating
202430.261 of 9032.2%★★☆☆☆
202324.075 of 9218.5%★☆☆☆☆
201951.827 of 6457.8%★★★☆☆
201860.513 of 4872.9%★★★★☆

White

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankNew Mexico percentileRating
202454.1128 of 33962.2%★★★☆☆
202351.2187 of 41354.7%★★★☆☆
202271.560 of 32581.5%★★★★☆
How student groups rank statewide ? (each group's percentile vs the same group at other schools — higher is better; the +/- beside each compares the group with this school's overall percentile)
White (2024)62nd percentile+34 vs school
Native American (2024)32nd percentile+4 vs school
Female (2024)32nd percentile+4 vs school
Low Socio Economic Status (2026)28th percentile~ school
Male (2024)27th percentile~ school
English Language Learner (2024)25th percentile-3 vs school
By subject vs New Mexico (2025-2026) ?
English Language Arts26%-18 vs state
Science24%-8 vs state
Mathematics23%-4 vs state

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Students who attend Ramah Elementary usually go on to attend:

High : Ramah High

Ramah Elementary ranks 257th of 346 New Mexico elementary schools. SchoolDigger rates this school 1 star out of 5.

In the 2024-25 school year, 223 students attended Ramah Elementary.

Students at Ramah Elementary are 58% American Indian, 17% White, 16% Hispanic, 9% Two or more races.

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2025–26 NM Combined, NM-ASR, NM-MSSA & SAT School Day test scoresSep 17, 2026
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2024–25 NM-ASR, NM-MSSA & SAT School Day test scoresJan 2, 2026
2023–24 graduation ratesApr 22, 2025


SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the New Mexico Public Education Department.

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