Summary:
ZIP code 87013 is home to a single middle school, Cuba Middle in Cuba, New Mexico, which serves grades 6 through 8 with 148 students as part of Cuba Independent Schools. Because it is the only middle school in the area, families have no in-ZIP alternative to compare it against; the most useful benchmarks are the district and New Mexico state averages.
Academically, Cuba Middle has ranked near the bottom of New Mexico schools across three consecutive reported years — 0 stars each year, with percentile ranks of 4 to 6. Its strongest results come in English language arts, especially grades 7 and 8, where 2025–26 scores reached 28.85% and 30.23%, compared with state averages of 46.63% and 43.61% in those grades. All-grade ELA was 22.14% against a state figure of 43.34%. Math is much weaker: all-grade math was 6.43% versus the state's 25.54%, and every reported grade-level math result is under 20%. Science is also reported as under 20% for the school, compared with about 33.4% statewide.
Cuba Middle serves a high-need population, with a 98.65% free/reduced lunch rate in 2024–25, and class sizes are comparatively small at 9.8 students per teacher. Results against the district are mixed: in 2024–25 the school exceeded district averages in both ELA (27.94% vs 20.88%) and math (9.56% vs 7.69%), while 2025–26 all-grade figures ran slightly below district in math and on the NM-MSSA measures. Scores also dipped year over year on NM-MSSA all-grade results, with ELA falling from 27.94% to 21.9% and math from 9.56% to 6.57%.
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