Summary:
ZIP code 87701 in Las Vegas, New Mexico has six elementary schools serving about 985 students across grades PK through 8, split between Las Vegas City Public Schools (two schools, 372 students) and West Las Vegas Public Schools (four schools, 613 students), and every one of the six reports 100% free/reduced lunch for 2024–25. Grade spans vary widely — PK–1, PK–3, 2–3, grade 4 only, K–5 and K–8 — so test results are not perfectly comparable from school to school.
On English language arts, Luis E. Armijo Elementary (48.78% all-grades ELA) and Mike Sena Elementary (47.37%) both exceed the current state all-grades ELA figure of 43.34%, and Mike Sena's 2024–25 ELA of 56.52% is the highest reported here. Mike Sena is also the smallest school (58 students) with the lowest student-teacher ratio (11.7), though its math and science results are suppressed. Los Ninos Elementary, the largest at 314 students, shows the clearest improvement, rising from the 28th percentile and 1 star in 2022–23 to the 67th percentile and 3 stars in 2023–24. Tony Serna Junior Elementary had strong earlier ranks (74th percentile, 4 stars in 2017–18) but currently scores below state in both subjects.
Math is the shared challenge: every school with an exact current math value is below its state benchmark, and no school has an exact math result above state. ELA is consistently stronger than math wherever both are reported. Don Cecilio Martinez Elementary is consistently low in available metrics (11th percentile, 1 star, below-state scores), and Rio Gallinas School has the highest student-teacher ratio at 20.5, low ELA, math under 20%, and a 19th percentile, 1-star rank. Suppressed (“—”) values are unknown, not evidence of weakness.
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