Summary:
ZIP code 87714 contains one public high school: Cimarron High, part of Cimarron Municipal Schools. It serves grades 9–12 with an enrollment of 64 students, a student-teacher ratio of 8.6:1 in 2024–2025, and a free/reduced lunch rate of 100% that same year. With only one school in the area, families are looking at a single small, rural high school rather than a set of options to compare.
Cimarron High earns 4 stars and ranks in roughly the top fifth to top quarter of New Mexico high schools in every year reported — 28 of 132 in 2025–2026, 32 of 131 in 2024–2025, and 42 of 170 in 2022–2023. Percentile rose from 75 to 79, though the changing denominators mean the rank gain should be read with care. Science is its clearest strength: 63.16% proficient on NM-ASR science and 60% on NM Combined science in 2025–2026, against state rates near 34%. English/language arts also beats the state, at 50% on NM Combined and 52.63% on SAT School Day versus state rates in the mid-to-high 30s. Against the district, however, the school sits below the district aggregate in every reported 11th-grade ELA and science metric, so the district as a whole scores higher than the school.
Two gaps matter. Every school-level math score is suppressed by the state to protect privacy, so math proficiency is unknown here — not zero. Graduation data are also fragmented: the only school-level rate is 66.0% in 2021–2022, while later figures are district 86.5% in 2023–2024 and state 80.6% in 2024–2025, from different years and levels. Finally, with just 64 students, tested cohorts are tiny, so a one- or two-student change can move a rate several points.
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