Summary:
ZIP code 87528 in Dulce, New Mexico is served by three public schools — Dulce Elementary (PK–5, 264 students), Dulce Middle (6–8, 130 students), and Dulce High (9–12, 160 students) — all part of the Dulce Independent Schools district, which ranks 86th of 87 districts in New Mexico at the 1st percentile with 0 stars and enrolls 554 students in total.
Economic need is nearly universal here: free/reduced lunch rates run 98.46% at Dulce Middle, 98.86% at Dulce Elementary, and 99.38% at Dulce High. Class sizes vary, with student-teacher ratios of 8.2, 14.0, and 9.8 respectively. Among the three schools, Dulce High is the relative standout. Its graduation rate of 87.6% is above the state's 80.6% — the only above-state metric in the data — and its 11th-grade ELA proficiency is 20.93% on NM Combined and 21.43% on SAT School Day ELA, against state rates of 36.78% and 37.07%. Its math and science results are reported as under 20%.
Dulce Elementary posts the ZIP's highest single proficiency figure, 30% in 4th-grade ELA, though that remains below the state's roughly 50%. Its all-grade ELA is 19.57% on NM Combined and 20% on NM-MSSA, while all-grade math is 5.07% and 5.19%. Dulce Middle's all-grade ELA is 17.8% and 17.95%, and its math is under 10%. Science is under 20% at the elementary and high schools, and 16.67% in 8th grade at the middle school. Many results appear only as bounds — under 20% or under 10% — so these should be read as below that threshold, not as exact rates. Overall, proficiency is very low across all three schools, especially in math, with Dulce High showing the strongest signals.
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