Summary:
ZIP code 87412 has just one school — Blanco Elementary, an elementary school serving grades 1–6 with 138 students in the Bloomfield Schools district — so there are no other schools in the area to compare it with; any comparison must be against the district, the state, or the school's own past years. It is a small, high-poverty school: 100% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025, and its student-teacher ratio was a favorable 10.6.
Academically, Blanco Elementary has a strong recent record. In 2025–2026 it ranked 83rd out of 346 ranked schools statewide — the 76th percentile with 4 stars — up from 183rd of 345 (47th percentile, 2 stars) in 2024–2025 and 144th of 413 (65th percentile, 3 stars) in 2023–2024, so the trend is volatile but currently strong. English language arts is its clearest strength: the all-grade ELA score of 45.05 is above both the district (42.14) and the state (44.66), with 4th grade at 61.11 and 6th grade at 60.71, both well above district and state. Math is the relative weak spot: all-grade math is 21.98, below the state's 27.85, though 6th grade math stands out at 42.86, above district (30.61) and state (32.13).
Two cautions for parents. Math slipped from 28.18 in 2024–2025 to 21.98 in 2025–2026, even as the school's star rating jumped — small schools can swing sharply, since only grades 3–6 are tested and enrollment is just 138. The state also suppressed several figures, including the school's science score and the 3rd–5th grade math results; those are unknown, not zero. Third-grade ELA (38.89) is below the state (44.72), making early literacy a relative gap, and school-level science cannot be judged from this data at all.
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