Summary:
ZIP code 88119 covers Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and is home to three public schools — Fort Sumner Elementary (PK–5, 124 students), Fort Sumner Middle (6–8, 70 students), and Fort Sumner High (9–12, 89 students) — all part of the Fort Sumner Municipal Schools district, which enrolls about 283 students and is rated 37th of 87 districts statewide, at the 57th percentile with 3 stars.
Among the three, Fort Sumner High is the strongest current performer relative to the state, ranking at the 67th percentile, the highest of the three. It beats New Mexico in every reported 2025–2026 subject, including 11th-grade language arts (55.26% vs 36.78%), SAT ELA (54.05% vs 37.07%), and 11th-grade math (21.05% vs 12.72%). It also has the smallest classes, with a student-teacher ratio of 8.3, and a 2023–2024 graduation rate of 92.2%; the 2024–2025 school-level figure is suppressed. Fort Sumner Middle (63rd percentile) posts strong ELA, such as 7th-grade ELA at 61.11% vs 46.99% statewide, while Fort Sumner Elementary (58th percentile) is above state in ELA and math but well below its very high 2024–2025 results. Notably, all three schools held 4-star ratings in 2023–2024 and now sit at 3 stars.
Two differences are worth watching. Middle-school science is the clear weak spot: 8th-grade science is 26.92% vs 34.33% on NM-ASR, while elementary 5th-grade and high school 11th-grade science both beat the state — a possible transition gap. Class sizes also vary widely: the middle school's ratio is 15.9, nearly double the high school's 8.3. Free/reduced-price lunch rates range from 55.71% at the middle school to 65.32% at the elementary. Because these schools are small, many subgroup results are suppressed by the state; those values should be read as unknown rather than as weaknesses.
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