Summary
Moriarty Middle is a public middle school in Moriarty, NM, serving grades 6–8 with 248 students as part of the Moriarty-Edgewood School District. In 2025-26, it ranked 150th of 191 middle schools statewide (21st percentile, 1 star), down from 110th of 232 (53rd percentile, 3 stars) in 2021-22. Its free/reduced lunch rate was 99.19% in 2024-25, and its student-teacher ratio was 14.6. Core proficiency is below district and state: ELA was 31.88% vs 47.51% district and 44.66% state; math was 14.01% vs 28.15% district and 27.85% state; eighth-grade science was 27.63% vs 40.34% district and 34.33% state.
Compared with nearby schools, Moriarty Middle is the lowest-ranked of the three middle schools. Edgewood Middle, in the same district, is 70th percentile with 4 stars, while Estancia Middle, in Estancia Municipal Schools, is 31st percentile with 2 stars. Edgewood’s 2025-26 proficiency was much higher: 56.57% in ELA, 31.02% in math, and 50.00% in eighth-grade science. Estancia’s ELA was 30.99%, math 19.44%, and science 32.50%. Moriarty’s ELA is essentially tied with Estancia’s, but its math and science results are lower than Estancia’s and far lower than Edgewood’s. All three schools have similarly high poverty rates—free/reduced lunch is at or near 100%—so economic disadvantage does not explain the gap. Moriarty’s student-teacher ratio (14.6) is better than Estancia’s (15.8) but higher than Edgewood’s (13.5).
Math is the school’s deepest and most persistent weakness. All grades are low: 6th-grade math was 17.65%, 7th-grade math 19.05%, and 8th-grade math under 10%. Math improved from 9% in 2023-24 to 13.43% in 2024-25 and 14.01% in 2025-26, but remains far below state and nearby schools. ELA is also below standard, with 6th grade as an urgent outlier: 19.12% proficient vs 39.14% statewide. Eighth-grade ELA was closer to average at 40.79% vs 43.85% state. Science is not a current strength; the 2025-26 eighth-grade result was 27.63% vs 34.33% state, though in 2022-23 the school’s all-grade science score was 38% vs 34% state. The most actionable priorities appear to be middle-school math across all grades and 6th-grade ELA, while monitoring student groups that remain mostly below the state median.
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