Sun Mountain Community School

Sun Mountain Community School is a K–8 charter-style school at 26 Puesta Del Sol in Santa Fe, NM (87508) that operates as its own single-school district, Sun Mountain Community School. Enrollment is listed as 0 in this record, so the number of students is not reported, and neither is the free/reduced-lunch percentage or student-teacher ratio. Only one year of data (2025–2026) is available, so there is no trend line for this school.

Reading is the clear strength. Overall Language Arts proficiency is 57.69 versus 43.34 statewide, and on the state's own NM‑MSSA exam reading is 57.69 versus 44.66 — roughly a third higher than the state figure. Math is far weaker: 28.85 overall versus the state's 25.54, and 28.85 versus 27.85 on the NM‑MSSA, meaning math is essentially at the state average. Statewide, the school ranks 57th of 346 New Mexico schools (84th percentile, 4 stars), and its district ranks 15th of 87 (83rd percentile). Reading results at the 3rd, 4th, and 6th grade levels (61.11, 55.56, 56.25) all sit above both the Santa Fe Public Schools average and the state. Every grade-level math result, and all science results, are suppressed by the state, so no grade-level math picture exists.

Compared with its neighbors, Sun Mountain Community School is the 4th-highest-ranked of 11 schools within about 3.7 miles, ahead of every Santa Fe Public Schools campus except Wood-Gormley Elementary, Acequia Madre Elementary, and Atalaya Elementary. Its closest neighbor, Thrive Community School (0.61 miles), follows the same K–8 independent-district model; Sun Mountain scores slightly higher in both subjects. The 28.84-point reading-to-math gap is the widest of any nearby school. Tested groups are small, so percentages carry wide margins of error and can swing sharply from year to year. Bottom line: a strong, reading-focused, single-year snapshot with unreported context.