Summary:
Zip code 88008 covers Santa Teresa, New Mexico, and is home to three public schools serving grades PK through 12 — one elementary, one middle, and one high school — all in the Gadsden Independent Schools district, which ranks 54 of 87 statewide at the 38th percentile with 2 stars. Together the three schools enroll 2,166 students; Santa Teresa High holds about 53% of them, and free/reduced-price lunch rates sit at roughly 100% across all three schools.
Santa Teresa Middle is the academic bright spot: 3 stars, ranked 65 of 191 (66th percentile), up from 106 of 192 (45th percentile) a year earlier. Its all-grade ELA proficiency (56.33%) and 8th-grade science (41.63%) beat both district and state, and science rose from 21.99% to 41.40% year over year. Santa Teresa Elementary also earns 3 stars, at the 51st percentile, with all-grade ELA (45.56%) and math (31.85%) above district and state — but results swing widely by grade, from 49.32% proficiency in 5th-grade math to 14.81% in 4th-grade math. The elementary school also slipped from the prior year, when it ranked at the 69th percentile, with ELA, math, and science all declining.
Santa Teresa High is the weakest performer, ranked 100 of 132 (24th percentile) with 1 star. Its 11th-grade proficiency is far below state averages — 25.09% in ELA, 8.49% in math, and 24.54% in science — and science dropped from 34.60% to 24.81% year over year. Yet 94.5% of its students graduate, above the district's 90.9% and the state's 80.6%, making the gap between graduation and proficiency the area's most striking finding. Math is the weakest subject across all three schools.
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