Summary:
Zip code 87549 covers Ojo Caliente, New Mexico, and has three small public schools — Mesa Vista High (grades 9–12), Ojo Caliente Elementary (classified as a middle school, grades 4–6), and Mesa Vista Middle (grades 7–8) — all part of Mesa Vista Consolidated Schools and sharing the same Hwy 285 Junction 111 address. Combined enrollment is 199 students, and all three report 100% free/reduced-price lunch, indicating a consistently high-poverty rural district. Student-teacher ratios differ: 8.4 at the high school, 12.7 at the middle school, and 14.1 at the elementary school. Many values are shown as “—” because the state suppressed them, so they are unknown rather than zero, and figures such as “under 20%” are bounds, not exact scores.
Ojo Caliente Elementary stands out for math: 41.86% proficiency across all grades, versus 20.45% district and 25.54% state on NM Combined, with 5th grade at 53.33% and 6th grade at 50%. Its 6th-grade ELA reaches 57.14%, and its latest rank is the strongest of the three — 33 of 165, 80th percentile, 4 stars in 2023–2024. Mesa Vista High shows dramatic improvement, rising from the 25th percentile in 2018–2019 to the 70th percentile in 2025–2026, with 11th-grade ELA at 52.63% and science at 42.11%, both above state. Its graduation rate of 77.8% is slightly below the state’s 80.6%, and its math scores are suppressed.
Mesa Vista Middle is the current concern. All-grades ELA is 38.98% versus state 43.34%, 8th-grade ELA is 33.33% versus state 43.61%, and all-grades math is “under 20%,” below district and state — even though its latest rank is 67th percentile with 3 stars. Across the district, ELA peaks in 6th grade, dips in 8th, and rebounds in 11th, which may reflect small-cohort volatility. Student-teacher ratios do not track performance, and suppressed math and science data leave the picture incomplete.
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