Summary:
ZIP code 87410 is home to two high schools — Aztec High and Vista Nueva High — both part of Aztec Municipal Schools, both serving grades 9–12, together enrolling 764 students, with every student at both campuses eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Aztec High is by far the larger school, with 696 students — about 91% of the area's high-schoolers and roughly 10.2 times Vista Nueva's enrollment. Its student–teacher ratio is 17.7, and its 2024–2025 graduation rate is 77.1%, above the district's 76.0% but below the state's 80.6%. It ranked 76th of 132 schools in 2025–2026 (42nd percentile, 2 stars), a clear improvement from 111th of 131 (15th percentile, 1 star) the year before. In every reported 2025–2026 proficiency measure, Aztec High scored above the district and below the state, with gaps to the state ranging from about 1.7 points in science to about 4.3 points in mathematics. Math is its weakest area (8.39% on NM Combined, 8.70% on SAT School Day), while language arts and science fall in the 31–34% range. Year over year, its science and English language arts gaps to the state narrowed substantially.
Vista Nueva High is much smaller, with 68 students and a lower student–teacher ratio of 13.3. Its 2024–2025 graduation rate of 64.7% is 11.3 points below the district and 15.9 points below the state — a 12.4-point gap with Aztec High. Its 2025–2026 school-level test scores are suppressed, so its current proficiency is unknown; that suppression is a privacy protection, not a zero or a sign of weakness. Historically it ranked well, at 62nd of 177 (65th percentile, 3 stars) in 2021–2022 and 63rd of 170 (63rd percentile, 3 stars) in 2022–2023.
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