Summary:
Zip code 87004 is served by six schools — three elementary, two middle, and one high school — all within Bernalillo Public Schools, a district ranked 82nd of 87 in New Mexico at the 6th percentile with 0 stars, together enrolling 2,181 students.
Two schools stand out well above the rest. Placitas Elementary is the strongest performer in the area: 5 stars and 96th percentile in 2024–2025, with 65.96% proficiency in all-grades ELA and 42.55% in math, both far above state results of 43.34% and 25.54%. Its rank has stayed high for three years. Santo Domingo Elementary is the biggest improver, climbing from the 1st percentile in 2022–2023 to the 65th percentile and 3 stars, with all-grades ELA at 47.78% and math at 22.22% — above the district in both subjects.
The other schools trail. Bernalillo High is the largest school at 824 students and the lowest-ranked, 132nd of 132 with 0 stars; its graduation rate is 72.9% versus the state’s 80.6%, and all-grades math is under 5%. Spartan Learning Academy has fallen to 18th percentile with all-grades math at 9.05% and 8th-grade math under 5%. Bernalillo Elementary sits below district and state in most measures, while Wd Carroll Elementary is weak overall but shows a bright spot in grade 3 math at 29.35%, above the state’s 26.24%. Every school reports 100% free/reduced lunch, and many grade-level figures are suppressed at the smaller schools — those should be read as unknown, not as failure.
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