Summary:
ZIP code 87016 is home to one high school: Estancia High in Estancia, New Mexico, which serves grades 9–12 and enrolls 184 students as part of Estancia Municipal Schools. Because it is the only high school in the area, there is no local school-to-school comparison to make, so the most useful context comes from how it performs against its district, the state, and its own past results.
Estancia High's latest results are encouraging. In 2025–2026 it ranked 39th of 132 high schools statewide — the 70th percentile — earning 4 stars. Science is its standout subject: 11th-grade science proficiency was 55.88%, more than 20 percentage points above the state's 34.02%. Eleventh-grade English language arts reached 41.18%, above the state's 36.78%, and the 2024–2025 graduation rate was 84.5% versus 80.6% statewide. Science and ELA both improved sharply from the prior year, when science was 31.91% and SAT ELA was 29.79%. Math, however, is the clear weak spot: every reported math score for the school is bounded under 20%.
The school serves a high-poverty population, with 100% of students eligible for free or reduced lunch, and its student-teacher ratio is 13.4:1. Its small size — about 184 students — means a handful of students can swing percentages dramatically, which helps explain a rank history that moved from the 69th percentile in 2023–2024 down to the 24th percentile in 2024–2025 and back up to the 70th percentile in 2025–2026. Families should view the latest gains as promising but watch whether they hold, especially in math.
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