Summary:
ZIP code 87401 covers 17 schools in Farmington, New Mexico — 10 elementary, 4 middle, and 3 high schools enrolling 8,961 students — with 16 of them in Farmington Municipal Schools (ranked 62 of 87 New Mexico districts) and one independent high school, Navajo Preparatory School.
The clear standout is Country Club Elementary, ranked 26 of 346 elementary schools statewide with 5 stars, where 66.91% of students are proficient in ELA and 56.83% in math — more than double the state math average. Six other schools beat both district and state averages in ELA and math: Northeast Elementary, Ladera Del Norte Elementary, Heights Middle, Hermosa Middle, Mesa Verde Elementary, and Esperanza Elementary. Together these seven enroll about 42% of the ZIP's students and roughly 55% of its elementary and middle school students. At the other end, Apache Elementary, McKinley Elementary, Tibbetts Middle, Mesa View Middle, and Rocinante High rank in the bottom fifth of the state, several with zero or one star.
Math is weaker than ELA almost everywhere. High schools are the biggest weakness: Farmington High has 8.58% math proficiency and an 80.7% graduation rate, while Rocinante's math is reported only as under 20%, with a 73.2% graduation rate. Poverty is widespread — 13 schools report 100% free/reduced lunch — yet Northeast, Esperanza, and Mesa Verde still outperform district and state, so poverty alone does not explain results. Student-teacher ratios average about 14.8:1 but do not track with performance. Navajo Preparatory School has no test, rank, or graduation data here, and three schools have blank lunch values, so comparisons remain incomplete.
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