Best Elementary Schools in Zip Code 87740

Elementary schools in ZIP code 87740 serve Raton, New Mexico, where families are covered by two schools in Raton Public Schools: Longfellow Elementary for grades PK–2 (235 students) and Raton Intermediate for grades 3–6 (246 students), together enrolling 481 elementary students.

The two schools are not directly comparable because they serve different grade spans, but each has a clear bright spot. Longfellow Elementary posts the highest proficiency figure in the data — 58.9% in all-grade Language Arts, which is above both the district (44.51%) and the state (43.34%). At Raton Intermediate, the standout is 6th grade, where Language Arts and math proficiency are both about 50%, well above state averages of roughly 39% and 32%. The weaker area is 5th-grade math, at 15.87% versus a state figure of 33.85% — the largest grade-level gap in the data. Grades 3–5 generally fall below state averages in both subjects.

Overall, Raton Intermediate presents a mixed picture: all-grade math is above district and state on the NM Combined metric (26.89% vs. 23.81% and 25.54%), but math slipped from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 on the comparable NM-MSSA metric, and its state rank percentile has fallen from 59th to 34th over three years. Poverty is near-universal at both schools — free/reduced lunch is 99.59% at Raton Intermediate and 96.17% at Longfellow — yet strong results still appear. Student/teacher ratios are favorable at 12:1 and 13:1. Longfellow's record covers only Language Arts, so its math, science, and long-term trends cannot be assessed from this data.