Summary:
ZIP code 87549, which covers Ojo Caliente and the surrounding rural area of northern New Mexico, has exactly one high school: Mesa Vista High, part of Mesa Vista Consolidated Schools. It serves grades 9–12 with 93 students and a student-teacher ratio of 8.4, and 100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Mesa Vista High's clearest strength is its improvement in state rankings. It moved from the 25th percentile with 1 star in 2018–2019 to the 70th percentile with 4 stars in 2025–2026, ranking 40th out of 132 schools — a gain of 45 percentile points across the available timeline and 37 points just since 2022–2023. In 11th grade, its Language Arts score of 52.63% is well above the state's 36.78%, and its Science score of 42.11% is also above the state's 34.02% — roughly 8 percentage points higher. Graduation is the one reported area where the school trails: its 77.8% rate equals the district's but falls 2.8 points below the state's 80.6%. Math is a data gap, as the state suppressed every school-level math score, so it cannot be judged from this data.
Two things matter when reading these numbers. First, with only 93 students and small testing cohorts, a handful of students can shift percentages sharply. Second, because the school is small and is the district's only high school, its 11th-grade results are identical to the district's — there is no local comparison school to measure it against. Families should weigh the strong upward ranking trend, above-state English and science results, and slightly below-state graduation rate together, and treat math performance as unknown rather than weak or strong.
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