Summary:
ZIP code 87575 is home to two small public schools — Escalante Middle/High School (grades 7–12, 134 students) and Tierra Amarilla Elementary (grades PK–6, 76 students) — both part of Chama Valley Indep. Schools, a rural New Mexico district ranked 87th of 87 in the state with 0 stars. Combined enrollment is 210 students. Both schools serve a highly economically disadvantaged population, with free/reduced lunch at 98.51% and 100% respectively, and both have small classes (student/teacher ratios of 11.1 and 10.1).
Tierra Amarilla Elementary is the academic bright spot in this ZIP code. Its all-grade mathematics proficiency is 23.26% (NM Combined), far above the district's 7.23% and only 2.28 points below the state's 25.54%; on NM-MSSA math it posts 21.43% versus 8.66% district and 27.85% state. Language arts sits slightly above the district at 25.58% but well below the state's 43.34%. The school's ELA rose to 26.19% from 20.93% a year earlier, though its ranking slipped from the 36th percentile in 2021–22 to the 6th percentile in 2023–24. Science results are suppressed for privacy and cannot be evaluated.
Escalante Middle/High presents a sharp contrast: its 83.5% graduation rate is 2.9 points above New Mexico's 80.6% average, but test proficiency is far below state levels. Language arts is 18.61%, math is under 5%, and science is 11.47% (NM Combined) — all far behind the state. Science fell from 24.07% to 11.63% year over year, and the school's rank dropped from the 15th percentile in 2023–24 to the 2nd percentile in 2025–26. Many grade-level scores are suppressed, so all-grade figures carry most of the weight.
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