Best High Schools in Zip Code 87002

ZIP code 87002 in Belen, New Mexico is home to two high schools — Belen High and Belen Infinity High — both serving grades 9–12 and both operating within Belen Consolidated Schools, a district ranked 52nd of 87 in the state at the 40th percentile with 2 stars.

The two schools could hardly be more different in size and recent standing. Belen High enrolls 958 students, about 8.6 times the 112 at Belen Infinity, and together they serve 1,070 high schoolers. Belen Infinity posted the stronger recent school-level result: 58th of 131 schools in 2024–2025, at the 56th percentile with 3 stars, while Belen High ranked 108th of 131 that same year, at the 18th percentile with 1 star. Belen Infinity also has notably smaller classes, with a student-teacher ratio of 11.7 versus 18.9 at Belen High, and it has climbed steeply over time, from the 10th percentile in 2017–2018 to the 56th in 2024–2025. Belen High, by contrast, slipped from the 34th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 15th in 2025–2026.

Graduation rates run the other direction, with Belen High at 73.6% in 2024–2025 versus 62.1% at Belen Infinity and 80.6% statewide. In science, Belen Infinity is the standout: 41.94% proficient in 11th-grade NM-ASR in 2024–2025, essentially matching the state's 41.69% and well above the district's 30.77% and Belen High's 28.95%. Mathematics is a shared weakness — Belen High's 11th-grade proficiency was 6.28% on NM Combined and 3.55% on SAT School Day in 2025–2026, slightly above district rates but far below the state's 12.72% and 12.53%. Many Belen Infinity results are reported only as under 20%, an upper bound rather than an exact figure, so those rows should be read as "under 20%" and cannot be compared precisely against benchmarks that also fall below 20%. Free or reduced-price lunch rates are nearly universal at both schools, at 99.9% and 100%.