Summary:
Zip code 87501 in Santa Fe is home to nine schools serving students from prekindergarten through grade 12: six elementary schools, one middle school, one high school, and one alternative school, with a combined enrollment of 2,396 students. Seven of the schools belong to Santa Fe Public Schools, one is its own district, NM School for the Arts, and one belongs to Pojoaque Valley Public Schools. School sizes vary widely, from 79 students at Sixth Grade Academy to 338 at both NM School for the Arts and Kearny Elementary.
Academic performance here is strikingly uneven. Wood-Gormley Elementary ranks #3 of 346 elementary schools statewide with 5 stars, 83.04% proficiency in language arts, and 68.82% in math, while Carlos Gilbert Elementary ranks #8 with 83.73% in language arts and 65.06% in math — both far above New Mexico's averages of 43.34% and 25.54%. Acequia Madre Elementary (#23) and Atalaya Elementary (#46) are also strong. NM School for the Arts ranks 22 of 132 high schools with a 95.2% graduation rate and 75.86% language arts. At the other end, Kearny Elementary ranks 318 of 346 with 0 stars, Aspen Community School and Sixth Grade Academy have language arts of 30.18% and 18.18%, and Gonzales Elementary sits mid-pack.
A few patterns stand out. Math is lower than language arts at every school, and the gap is large — even the top schools trail in math, and the lowest schools have math proficiency under 20%. Science is a strength at the top schools, with 5th-grade science between about 65% and 70% at the leading elementaries versus a state figure of 31.97%. Reported free-and-reduced-lunch rates are 98.6% to 100% at several lower-performing schools, while the four top elementaries do not report that data. Enrollment and student-teacher ratios vary widely, and several test scores are suppressed or given only as bounds, so treat them as unknown.
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