Mesa View Elementary

Mesa View Elementary is a PK–6 neighborhood school at 400 East Washington in Grants, New Mexico, serving 465 students — the largest elementary enrollment in its local comparison group — within Grants‑Cibola County Schools, a district that itself ranks 64th of 87 in New Mexico. About 94.6% of its students qualified for free or reduced lunch in 2024–25.

Academically, Mesa View sits in the bottom quarter of New Mexico and has for a decade; its 2025‑26 rank of 263rd of 346 schools (24th percentile) is the lowest percentile in its ten‑year record. Math is a relative strength — 21.52% proficient, ahead of the district's 18.55% but below the state's 27.85%. ELA is the weak spot at 29.6%, nearly 5 points under the district and 15 under the state, and it fell 9.9 points in a single year while math gained 3.5. Performance climbs steeply by grade: 6th‑grade math (38.98%) and 5th‑grade science (32.0%) beat both district and state averages, while 3rd‑grade ELA is 16.67%, less than half the district rate.

Compared with nearby campuses, Mesa View posts the lowest all‑grades ELA proficiency among its same‑district peers. Cubero Elementary, a closer match on poverty (87.3% free/reduced lunch), outperforms it in both subjects with a much smaller student‑teacher ratio (8.1:1 versus 11.3:1), while Bluewater Elementary — smaller still at 5.7:1 and serving a less disadvantaged population — reaches 56.4% ELA and 41.0% math. Mount Taylor Elementary and Milan Elementary post higher ELA but lower math. Two cautions: the statewide comparison pool shrank to 346 ranked elementaries from 435 in 2022–23, so percentile shifts partly reflect a changing denominator, and several 2025‑26 subgroup results are missing because the state suppressed them — they are not zeros. The bottom line: Mesa View is a large, high‑poverty school that outperforms its district in math and shows real strength in grades 5–6, but is losing ground in ELA and consistently enters with an unusually weak 3rd‑grade cohort.