Best High Schools in Zip Code 87013

ZIP code 87013, centered on Cuba, New Mexico, is home to two small, high-poverty high schools serving grades 6–12 combined: Cuba High and Tse Yi Gai High. Together they enroll 339 students, with Cuba High (grades 9–12, 275 students) accounting for about 81% of that enrollment and Tse Yi Gai High (grades 6–12, 64 students) making up the rest. Both serve very high-poverty populations by the free/reduced-lunch measure — 97.09% at Cuba High and 90.62% at Tse Yi Gai.

The two schools have sharply different profiles. Cuba High, part of Cuba Independent Schools, has the clearest strength in completion: a 92.8% graduation rate in 2024–2025, 12.2 percentage points above the state rate of 80.6% and matching its district. Its measured academics are weak, however — 11th-grade Language Arts is 14.29% versus the state's 36.78%, all-grade Mathematics and Science are under 20% (state: 25.54% and 33.4%), and its state ranking sits near the bottom at 4th–8th percentile with 0 stars across three reported years. Tse Yi Gai High, in Gallup-McKinley City Schools, has a much lower student-teacher ratio (1.7 versus Cuba's 7.8) and higher relative rankings in every year available — 28th percentile with 1 star in 2023–2024, 17th percentile in 2022–2023, and 39th percentile with 2 stars in 2018–2019. Its graduation rate is 76.0%, below both Cuba High and the state.

Parents should note one important data limit: every school-level test score for Tse Yi Gai High is suppressed by the state as "—", so its proficiency cannot be judged either way. Its district scores are below the state on all reported metrics, but that is district context, not school-level proof. In short, Cuba High is the larger school with a standout graduation rate but low proficiency and ranking, while Tse Yi Gai High is tiny, staffing-rich, and relatively better ranked, with lower completion and unknown test results.