Summary:
ZIP code 87020 covers 11 schools in the Grants, New Mexico area — 7 elementary, 1 middle and 3 high schools enrolling about 3,023 students — all within the Grants-Cibola County Schools district, which ranks 64th of 87 in New Mexico at the 26th percentile with 1 star. Sizes vary enormously, from Grants High at 807 students to Seboyeta Elementary at 26. Most schools serve very high percentages of students from low-income families; the median free/reduced-lunch rate is 94.62%, ranging from 61.9% at Bluewater Elementary to 100% at Gccs Early College High School.
There are clear pockets of strength. Gccs Early College High School ranks 25th of 132 (81st percentile, 4 stars), with 11th-grade Language Arts, Science and SAT ELA each at 58.33%; its math results are suppressed. Bluewater Elementary earned 5 stars in 2023-2024 and 2022-2023 and reports 56.41% ELA and 41.03% math. Cubero Elementary ranks 111th of 346 (68th percentile, 3 stars) with 46.3% ELA and 41.67% math, including 5th-grade math at 76.19%. Laguna-Acoma High graduates 89.0% of students, above the district's 80.1% and the state's 80.6%.
Other schools raise concerns. Los Alamitos Middle ranks 170th of 191 (11th percentile, 1 star), with all-grade math at 9.02% and 8th-grade math at 6.81%. Grants High, the largest school, ranks 108th of 132 (18th percentile) with math under 5% and a 77.0% graduation rate. Mesa View Elementary sits at the 24th percentile. District 11th-grade math is 3.95% versus the state's 12.72%. Where results show "—", the state suppressed them; treat those as unknown rather than weak.
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