Summary:
ZIP code 87105 has four listed high schools — Rio Grande High, South Valley Academy, New America School, and School On Wheels High School — all under Albuquerque Public Schools, serving grades 9–12 (South Valley serves 6–12), with a combined enrollment of 2,275 in an area where more than 98% of students at every school qualify for free or reduced lunch.
The schools differ sharply in size and results. Rio Grande High is by far the largest, with 1,475 students — roughly 65% of the group — and also reports the lowest math proficiency: 3.64% in 11th-grade math and 3% on SAT Math, alongside 11th-grade Language Arts at 25.45%, Science at 15.61%, and SAT ELA at 25.84%, all well below district and state. South Valley Academy, with 604 students, has the strongest graduation rate at 92.5%, above the district's 75.6% and the state's 80.6%, and its 2024–25 rank reached the 50th percentile with 3 stars before falling to the 17th percentile in 2025–26. Even so, its high-school-level test scores remain below district and state, with math proficiency under 10%.
The two smallest schools, New America School (131 students) and School On Wheels High School (65 students), graduate 57.6% and 51.5% of students respectively — far below district and state — and their test scores are suppressed by the state as "—", meaning proficiency is unknown rather than zero. Neither has current rank data. Smaller size and lower student/teacher ratios (7.6 and 8.7) do not correspond to better outcomes here, and poverty is uniformly high, so it does not distinguish these schools. No 2025–26 high-school-level proficiency measure in this group exceeds its district or state comparison.
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