Santa Rosa Elementary

Santa Rosa Elementary is a PK–5 neighborhood school at 658 5th St in Santa Rosa, New Mexico (Guadalupe County), serving 203 students as the elementary campus of Santa Rosa Consolidated Schools. It is the only school within 20 miles, so families here have no nearby campus to compare it to — which makes its own district and the state the most useful benchmarks.

The school is rated 3 stars and ranked 151st of 346 ranked New Mexico elementary schools in 2025–2026 — the 56th percentile — while its district ranks 77th of 87 districts statewide with 1 star. In 2025–2026, 53.19% of students were proficient in Language Arts (versus 43.34% statewide) and 29.79% in math (versus 25.54% statewide), both well ahead of district averages of 33.75% and 10.78%. Notably, 95.57% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, yet the school's low-income students ranked in the 78th percentile statewide (4 stars). The student-teacher ratio is a favorable 10.5 to 1, and performance has climbed from the 26th percentile in 2014–15 to a stable band in the mid-50s to low-60s over the last five reported years.

The areas to watch are specific. Third-grade math sits right at the state line, and fifth-grade science came in at 29.63% versus 32.24% statewide. The school's Language Arts-to-math gap (23.4 points) is wider than the state's (16.8 points), and math proficiency rises by grade — suggesting early foundational math is the place to focus. Because only about 94 students across grades 3–5 take these tests, a single student is worth roughly 1 percentage point, so the multi-year trend is a more reliable signal than any single year's number.