Summary:
ZIP code 88005 in Las Cruces, New Mexico contains exactly one public high school: Alma D'Arte Charter, a tuition-free arts charter school serving grades 9–12 at 402 W Court Ave. Because it operates as its own charter district, there is no other school in this ZIP code to compare it against — the only meaningful benchmark is the state of New Mexico as a whole.
Alma D'Arte is a small school, with 63 students across four grade levels — roughly 15 to 16 students per grade. Its student–teacher ratio of 9.4 to 1 is very low and implies about seven instructional staff, a setting where students are unlikely to go unnoticed. Enrollment is also universally economically disadvantaged: 100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, so the school pairs a high-need population with a resource-intensive, small-class model. The one clear academic outcome available is its graduation rate of 64.6%, which sits about 16 percentage points below New Mexico's 80.6% — the school graduates roughly 80% of the share of students the state does. Notably, the Alma D'Arte Charter district is too small to offer any district-level average that would contextualize that figure.
The school's ranking history is highly volatile, which is typical for a school this size. In 2021–22 it ranked 35th of 177 New Mexico high schools (80th percentile, 4 stars), then dropped to 104th of 170 (39th percentile, 2 stars) in 2022–23 before recovering to 94th of 172 (45th percentile, 2 stars) in 2023–24. Every school-level test score for 2025–26 is suppressed by the state to protect student privacy, so those figures are unknown — they are not zero and reveal nothing either way about proficiency. For parents, the graduation rate is the finding to ask about; the test scores are simply a blank.
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