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Jal High

Public Grades 9-12
120th
SchoolDigger Rank ?
of 132 New Mexico High Schools
Better than 9% of New Mexico high schools
Summary

Jal High in Jal, New Mexico, is a public high school serving grades 9–12 with 158 students, and it is the only school within 20 miles in the provided data, part of Jal Public Schools.

Because no other schools within 20 miles were included, comparisons use district and state benchmarks. In 2025–2026, the school ranked 120th of 132 New Mexico high schools, in the 9th percentile with 0 stars, putting it in the bottom decile statewide. The district ranked 78th of 87, in the 10th percentile with 1 star. The school’s recent history is highly uneven: it reached the 59th percentile and 3 stars in 2024–2025, then fell back to the 9th percentile and 0 stars in 2025–2026. With only 158 students, small grade cohorts can make percentages and rankings swing sharply from year to year.

A relative strength is the graduation rate: the school exceeded the state rate in 2021–2022, 2022–2023, and 2023–2024, and reached 93.1% in 2019–2020; the only recent year shown below state was 2020–2021. Test proficiency generally trails the state. In 2025–2026, 11th-grade language arts was 22.5% versus about 37% statewide, and science was 21.05% versus about 34% statewide. Math is often reported only as “under 20%,” so exact gaps are not always available. One clear above-state result was 2024–2025 11th-grade English language arts, at 39.39% versus 38.44% statewide. The student-teacher ratio improved to 14:1 in 2024–2025, from 17.3 and 18.6 in the prior two years. Free/reduced lunch was 47.62% in 2022–2023 and 44.38% in 2023–2024. Subgroup results are uneven: low-income students ranked 40 of 115 (65th percentile, 3 stars) in 2024–2025, and special education students ranked 19 of 58 (67th percentile, 3 stars) in 2021–2022, but these strengths have not been sustained across years or groups.

158
Students ?
14.0
Student/teacher ratio ?
$12,842
Per pupil spending ?
1.9%
Directly certified for free meals (2024-25) ?
All students in New Mexico receive free school meals.
 100 Property Street
       Jal, NM  88252

(575) 395-2101

District: Jal Public Schools


Feeder schools for Jal High:

Elementary:    Jal Elementary
Middle:    Jal Junior High
Racial breakdown:

Hispanic:
82.9%
White:
14.6%
Two or more races:
1.3%
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At a glance
▼ Ranking trend: Declining — 35th percentile in 2014 → 9th in 2026
Strengths
✓87% graduate in 4 years — above the New Mexico average (78%)
Worth a look
!Test scores below the New Mexico average (22% vs 28% meeting standards)
!In the lower quartile statewide (9th percentile)
!Ranking has slipped — down 26 percentile points since 2014
Students meeting standards (2025-2026) ?
This school22%
District avg22%
New Mexico avg28%
120th of 132
New Mexico public high schools ?
Bottom 9%▲ up 3 pts since 2016
From bottom 6% (2016) to bottom 9% (2026)
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★★★★★
SchoolDigger rating ?
78th of 87Jal Public 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)
Show full rank history (all student groups)

All Students

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankNew Mexico percentileRating
202615.8120 of 1329.1%☆☆☆☆☆
202545.954 of 13158.8%★★★☆☆
202412.8159 of 1727.6%☆☆☆☆☆
202321.7130 of 17023.5%★☆☆☆☆
202231.7101 of 17742.9%★★☆☆☆
20198.9174 of 1813.9%☆☆☆☆☆
201813.1168 of 1827.7%☆☆☆☆☆
201717.3143 of 1589.5%★☆☆☆☆
201616.2174 of 1855.9%☆☆☆☆☆
201438.6128 of 19835.4%★★☆☆☆
201331.1126 of 17728.8%★★☆☆☆
201227.7122 of 16325.2%★☆☆☆☆
20114.1153 of 1572.5%☆☆☆☆☆
201045.685 of 15444.8%★★☆☆☆
200915.3132 of 15112.6%★☆☆☆☆
200855.062 of 14657.5%★★★☆☆
200730.6107 of 15028.7%★☆☆☆☆
200647.669 of 13448.5%★★★☆☆
200558.250 of 12961.2%★★★☆☆

Hispanic

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankNew Mexico percentileRating
202619.583 of 10017.0%★☆☆☆☆
202534.353 of 9845.9%★★☆☆☆
202319.3114 of 13213.6%★☆☆☆☆
202228.0106 of 15029.3%★☆☆☆☆
201914.4135 of 1392.9%☆☆☆☆☆

Low Socio Economic Status

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankNew Mexico percentileRating
202552.440 of 11565.2%★★★☆☆

Male

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankNew Mexico percentileRating
202432.785 of 15043.3%★★☆☆☆
202332.3101 of 14630.8%★★☆☆☆
202236.193 of 15941.5%★★☆☆☆

Special Education

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankNew Mexico percentileRating
202264.819 of 5867.2%★★★☆☆

White

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankNew Mexico percentileRating
202540.160 of 11748.7%★★★☆☆
20249.1128 of 1365.9%☆☆☆☆☆
202317.9140 of 15710.8%★☆☆☆☆
202227.7100 of 13324.8%★☆☆☆☆
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)
Special Education (2022)67th percentile+24 vs school
Low Socio Economic Status (2025)65th percentile+6 vs school
White (2025)49th percentile-10 vs school
Male (2024)43rd percentile+36 vs school
Hispanic (2026)17th percentile+8 vs school
By subject vs New Mexico (2025-2026) ?
English Language Arts22%-15 vs state
Science21%-13 vs state

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Frequently Asked Questions about Jal High

In the 2024-25 school year, 158 students attended Jal High.

Jal High is fed by the following schools:

Elementary : Jal Elementary
Middle : Jal Junior High

Students at Jal High are 83% Hispanic, 15% White, 1% Two or more races.

Jal High ranks in the bottom 9.1% of New Mexico high schools.

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Latest New Mexico data All new data »
2025–26 NM Combined, NM-ASR, NM-MSSA & SAT School Day test scoresSep 17, 2026
2024–25 graduation ratesFeb 27, 2026
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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