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Best High Schools in Zip Code 88116

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ZIP code 88116 has one high school, Elida High, a small rural school in Elida, New Mexico, serving grades 7–12 with 73 students as part of Elida Municipal Schools. In 2023–2024, Elida High ranked 11 out of 172 ranked schools, placing in the 94th percentile with 5 stars—roughly the top 6% of ranked schools. Its recent ranking history has varied: rank 54 of 177, 69th percentile, 4 stars in 2021–2022; rank 66 of 170, 61st percentile, 3 stars in 2022–2023; then rank 11 of 172, 94th percentile, 5 stars in 2023–2024.

In the latest reported tests, Elida High exceeded district and state proficiency in Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science. For 2025–2026 all grades, Language Arts was 73.91% versus 43.34% for the state, a difference of +30.57 percentage points; Mathematics was 60.87% versus 25.54%, a difference of +35.33 percentage points; and Science was 43.75% versus 33.4%, a difference of +10.35 percentage points. Mathematics is especially notable because the school’s rate is more than double the state rate. The school also rose above the district in all three subjects after being above the state but below the district in 2024–2025. Year-over-year school gains were +19.74 points in Language Arts, +19.20 points in Mathematics, and +2.08 points in Science. Available 8th-grade results are strong: 75% in Language Arts, 56.25% in Mathematics, and 50% in Science, all above state values. However, 7th-grade Language Arts and Mathematics and 11th-grade Science are suppressed at the school level, so the full grade-level picture is unknown.

Context matters for this small school. The free/reduced lunch rate is 61.64%, and the student-teacher ratio is 4.8, suggesting small classes and more individualized instruction. For 2020–2021, the school graduation rate was 88.6%, equal to the district. The only 2024–2025 graduation value in the file is the state value of 80.6%, so it is not directly comparable to the school’s earlier rate. With only 73 students in grades 7–12, individual grade cohorts are very small; that explains some suppressed results and means year-to-year rank changes—such as moving from 3 stars in 2022–2023 to 5 stars in 2023–2024—should be interpreted with caution. Overall, the latest data show strong performance against state benchmarks, especially in Mathematics and Language Arts.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking ()				Ranking ()				NM-ASR Science (2026)			NM-MSSA English Language Arts (2026)			NM-MSSA Mathematics (2026)			Per Pupil Expenditures (2019)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/reduced lunch (2024-25)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score ()	Statewide Rank ()	State Percentile ()	SchoolDigger Rating ()	Average Standard Score ()	Statewide Rank ()	State Percentile ()	Rank Change from Previous Year	NM-ASR Science 8th Grade	NM-ASR Science 11th Grade	NM-ASR Science All Grades	NM-MSSA English Language Arts 7th Grade	NM-MSSA English Language Arts 8th Grade	NM-MSSA English Language Arts All Grades	NM-MSSA Mathematics 7th Grade	NM-MSSA Mathematics 8th Grade	NM-MSSA Mathematics All Grades	Total
Elida High	Public	7-12	101 North Church	Elida	88116	Roosevelt County	Elida Municipal Schools	No	(n/a)	No	No	(575) 274-6211	73	15	4.8	61.6%	52 (71.2%)	0 (0.0%)	16 (21.9%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (1.4%)	4 (5.5%)								(n/a)	50.0		43.8		75.0	73.9		56.3	60.9	$15,241

Cities Near Zip Code 88116

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Elida	4.07 mi	2
Dora	16.3 mi	2	10^th
Floyd	22.12 mi	3	22^nd
Portales	24.77 mi	6	50^th
Melrose	37.15 mi	3	8^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the New Mexico Public Education Department.

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