Summary:
ZIP code 87321 in Ramah, New Mexico has one reported elementary school: Ramah Elementary, a PK–5 school with 223 students in the Gallup-McKinley City Schools district. The district ranks 60 of 87 in New Mexico, in the 31st percentile with 2 stars. Note that while the school profile lists grades PK–5, the test records also include 6th grade results, which appears to be a reporting mismatch.
Ramah Elementary's clearest bright spot is 6th grade mathematics, where proficiency reaches 33.33% on NM Combined and 34.29% on NM-MSSA — above both the district and the state. That is the only reported grade-level comparison where the school outperforms its benchmarks. Mathematics overall is the stronger subject: all-grade math sits just 0.60 percentage points below the district on NM Combined, compared with a much wider ELA gap. The school also improved markedly year over year. All-grade math rose from 12.2% to about 23.2%–23.4%, and ELA rose from 18.7% to about 26.1%–26.4%. Its state rank climbed from 342 of 345 (1st percentile, 0 stars) to 257 of 346 (26th percentile, 1 star).
English language arts remains the biggest challenge. All-grade ELA is 10.36 points below the district and 17.21 points below the state on NM Combined, and 13.01 points below the district and 18.30 points below the state on NM-MSSA. Fifth-grade science, at 24.14%, also trails both benchmarks. Context matters here: 87.89% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, and the reported student/teacher ratio is just 5.2, which is unusually low. Several grade-level results in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades are suppressed by the state for privacy — those values are unknown, not zero, so they should not be read as poor performance.
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