Summary:
Elementary schools in ZIP code 87410 in Aztec, New Mexico comprise four schools — three traditional Aztec Municipal Schools elementaries plus one K–8 charter — enrolling about 1,163 students across grade spans from pre-K through 8th grade. Lydia Rippey Elementary (PK–3, 354 students) and McCoy Avenue Elementary (PK–3, 313) serve the earliest grades, Park Avenue Elementary (4–5, 317) serves upper elementary grades, and Mosaic Academy Charter (K–8, 179) is the smallest and only charter, so its results blend elementary and middle-school grades. All three district elementaries report 100% free/reduced lunch, while Mosaic reports 65.92%; weighted across the ZIP, that is roughly 94.8%, showing poverty indicators concentrated in the traditional schools.
Lydia Rippey Elementary has the strongest overall profile: a rank of 66 out of 413 in 2023–2024, at the 84th percentile with 4 stars — the only 4-star rating here — and 2024–2025 ELA proficiency of 53.66%, above the district's 40.68% and the state's 44.19%. Mosaic Academy Charter is the science and upper-grade standout, with 8th-grade science at 53.33% versus 20.24% district and 34.33% state, and 7th-grade ELA at 75% versus 49.39% district and 46.99% state. Mosaic has ranked near the 60th–68th percentile with 3 stars recently, though many of its grade-level math results are suppressed by the state and remain unknown.
Park Avenue Elementary improved from 1 star and the 14th percentile in 2024–2025 to 2 stars and the 35th percentile in 2025–2026, with strong 4th-grade ELA (53.95% vs state 50.89%) but weaker 5th-grade ELA, math, and science. McCoy Avenue Elementary has the lowest student/teacher ratio at 12.7 versus Park's 19.8, yet trails the state in key subjects, and its rank fell from the 56th percentile in 2022–2023 to the 32nd in 2023–2024. In the most comparable 2024–2025 all-grade results, math trailed ELA at every school, and only Lydia Rippey exceeded the state in math.
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