Summary:
ZIP code 87801 in Socorro has exactly one middle school: Socorro Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with 221 students as part of Socorro Consolidated Schools. Because it is the only middle school in the area, there are no local peer schools to compare it with, so the useful comparisons are against its district and the state. The district itself sits near the middle of New Mexico schools — 43rd of 87, 51st percentile, 3 stars — while the school ranked 179th of 191 in 2025–2026, at the 6th percentile with 0 stars. That gap between a mid-pack district and a bottom-decile school is the most important thing for parents to know.
Test scores show the school below both district and state in every reported all-grade subject. All-grade math on the NM-MSSA is 12.57%, versus 25.28% in the district and 27.85% statewide — less than half of both. All-grade ELA is 22.53%, compared with 40.52% in the district and 44.66% in the state. Eighth-grade science is 18.87%, against 23.94% in the district and 34.33% statewide. By grade, 6th-grade ELA is 25.37%, 7th is 23.81%, and 8th is 17.31%; 6th-grade math is 16.42% and 7th-grade math is 14.29%, even though the district’s 7th-grade math (28.40%) is slightly above the state’s 27.10%. Eighth-grade math is reported only as a bound: the school is under 20%, the district under 10%, and the state 20.5%, so an exact gap cannot be calculated.
Trends are also worth noting. All-grade ELA fell 9.29 percentage points, from 31.82% to 22.53%, while math rose slightly from 10.61% to 12.57% off a very low base, and 8th-grade science dropped from 27.14% to 18.87%. Rank history moved from the 13th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 17th in 2024–2025, then down to the 6th percentile and 0 stars in 2025–2026. Context matters: 97.74% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, the student-teacher ratio is 15.2, and enrollment is small at 221. The relative bright spots are 6th-grade ELA and math, though both still trail district and state.
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