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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 87102


At a glance
15
Schools
4,667
Students
4
Districts
1
5-star school
Top rankedEarly College Academy4th of 132 New Mexico high schools
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Biggest riser
South Valley Prep up 33 spots statewide this year
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Smallest classes
Lew Wallace Elementary 8 students per teacher
SchoolDigger ratings
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5 schools without a SchoolDigger rating (too few tested students)
Summary:

ZIP code 87102 covers 14 schools — 6 elementary, 2 middle, 5 high and 1 alternative — serving 4,667 students, most of them within Albuquerque Public Schools. Enrollment is concentrated at the top: the five high schools hold about 59.5% of all students, and Albuquerque High alone enrolls 1,568, roughly a third of the ZIP total and more than three times the next-largest school. Note that many test-score cells are marked "—" because the state suppressed them for privacy; read those as unknown, and treat values shown as "under 20%" or "under 10%" as upper bounds rather than exact scores.

The ZIP holds both state leaders and struggling schools. Early College Academy is the standout: 5 stars, ranked 4th of 132 high schools (97th percentile), with a 90.6% graduation rate and grade-11 proficiency of 80% in ELA, 52% in math and 77.08% in science. Amy Biehl Charter High School (4 stars, 17th of 132) is strong in ELA at 61.9% and science at 64.29%, though grade-11 math is under 20%. Among elementaries, Coronado Dual Language Magnet (4 stars, 94th of 346) posts 56.89% ELA and 34.13% math. Both of these 4-star schools serve 100% free/reduced-lunch populations, showing that high poverty does not automatically mean low performance.

At the other end, Siembra Leadership High School ranks 131st of 132 with 0 stars, 16.83% grade-11 ELA and math under 10%, plus the ZIP's highest student-teacher ratio at 26.1. Washington Middle (0 stars, 174th of 191) has 9.3% math and 15.85% 8th-grade science. Abq Charter Academy has the lowest graduation rate here at 41.3%. South Valley Prep improved from the 27th to the 44th percentile, but its math remains 10.71%. Across nearly every school, math is the weakest subject.

Ranking:
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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the New Mexico Public Education Department.

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