Summary:
Zip code 87323 is home to exactly one high school, Thoreau High, which serves grades 9–12 in Thoreau, NM, enrolls 389 students, and belongs to Gallup-McKinley City Schools. Because it is the only high school in the area, families here have a single local option. In 2024–25, 88.69% of its students were eligible for free or reduced lunch, indicating substantial economic need in the community it serves.
Thoreau High ranks near the bottom of New Mexico high schools: 127th of 132 schools in 2025–26, at the 4th percentile with 0 stars. It also earned 0 stars in 2024–25 (120th of 131, 8th percentile) and 2023–24 (157th of 172, 9th percentile). Its district is ranked 60th of 87 statewide, at the 31st percentile with 2 stars, so the school sits well below its district's overall standing. Test scores trail both district and state: 11th-grade English language arts proficiency was 13.92%, versus 23.98% in the district and 37.07% statewide, and 11th-grade science was 20.25%, versus 29.7% district and 34.27% state. Every reported math result is under 10% proficient, so the exact rate is not available, but it is below district and state in each comparison. Science remains the strongest reported subject, though it fell from 31.33% in 2024–25, while ELA improved slightly from 11.76%.
The clearest bright spot is the 78.9% graduation rate in 2024–25 — 3.1 percentage points above the district's 75.8% and 1.7 points below the state's 80.6%. Data gaps remain: the student-teacher ratio is not reported, math is given only as under 10%, and no 2025–26 graduation rate or longer test-score history is available.
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