Best Public Schools in Zip Code 87506

ZIP 87506 covers a mostly rural stretch of northern Santa Fe County — the Pojoaque Valley, Tesuque, and two Pueblo communities — and contains 7 schools serving about 1,549 students: 5 elementary, 1 middle, and 1 high school, run by three separate systems (Pojoaque Valley Public Schools, Santa Fe Public Schools, and two tribally operated day schools). The four Pojoaque Valley schools — Pojoaque High, Pojoaque Middle, Pojoaque Intermediate, and Pablo Roybal Elementary — enroll 1,421 students, roughly 92% of the ZIP total.

Math is the shared weak spot: every school with reported math data scores below its state average, and two grade bands are reported only as under 10%. Tesuque Elementary is the exception, at 26.19% proficient — the only school in the ZIP at or above the state's 25.54% — though its English language arts (35.71%) trails the state. ELA is more uneven: Pablo Roybal's 3rd grade (45.45%) and Pojoaque Intermediate's 4th grade (57.14%) beat their state averages, and Pojoaque Middle's 8th grade ELA (47.90%) does too, even as its math (7.94%) is the lowest reported figure here. Pojoaque High posts a graduation rate of 82.4%, above the state's 80.6%.

Three takeaways matter most. First, the Pojoaque schools all improved in 2025-26 rankings, with the high school jumping from the 8th to the 33rd percentile. Second, poverty is uniform — every school reports at least about 90% free or reduced lunch, so there is no advantaged comparison group inside this ZIP. Third, staffing varies enormously, from 4.1 students per teacher at Te Tsu Geh Oweenge Day School to 19.0 at Pojoaque Middle. The two day schools, San Ildefonso Day School and Te Tsu Geh Oweenge, plus tiny Tesuque, have suppressed or absent assessment data — a privacy artifact of small enrollment, not evidence of poor performance.