Summary:
ZIP code 87110 contains 20 schools — 11 elementary, 3 middle, and 6 high schools — enrolling about 8,793 students, nearly all of them in Albuquerque Public Schools except the charter 21st Century Public Academy and the tiny Aztec Youth Academy in the Juvenile Justice district. Poverty is the norm: the average free/reduced-lunch rate is 92.5%, and 17 of 20 schools are at 95% or higher.
Desert Willow Family School is the clear standout, ranked 7th of 346 elementary schools statewide with 83.6% language arts, 74.6% math, and 75.38% science proficiency — despite 99.65% FRL and the highest student-teacher ratio in the ZIP at 15.9. 21st Century Public Academy (58.23% LA, 33.54% math) has held the 75th–81st percentile for three years, and Comanche Elementary outperforms district and state on 99.38% FRL. Among high schools, Sandia High is the strongest (73rd percentile, 82.7% graduation vs. 80.6% state), well ahead of Del Norte High (69.4%) and Ecademy (55.7%). Alice King Community School, at 30.99% FRL, is the lowest-poverty school here and scores above district and state, though its statewide rank slipped to the 41st percentile.
Math is the weakest subject almost everywhere — even Sandia High is at 27.1%, Del Norte High 9.91%, and Ecademy under 5%. Middle school is a local weak point: Cleveland Middle is near district average, but McKinley Middle (6th percentile) and Hayes Middle (5th percentile) rank near the bottom of the state. Freedom High and New Futures High School have suppressed test data, and Aztec Youth Academy lists 33 students, so those should be viewed separately.
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