Summary:
ZIP code 88232 serves Hagerman, New Mexico — a small rural community where all three local schools belong to a single district, Hagerman Municipal Schools. Together they cover the full K–12 pipeline: Hagerman Elementary (PK–5, 217 students), Hagerman Middle (6–8, 70 students), and Hagerman High (9–12, 121 students), for a total of 408 students.
Each school has a distinct academic identity. Hagerman Elementary is the math standout, with 36.59% of students proficient in math versus 25.54% statewide, and 3rd grade reading at 52% against a 44.33% state figure — though 4th grade reading falls to 35% while the state sits at 50.36%. Hagerman Middle is the reading standout, at 52.56% language arts proficiency, roughly 9 points above the state, and it showed the strongest growth in the area: middle-school math nearly doubled year over year, from 15.38% to 25.97%. Hagerman High climbed from 1 star to 3 stars in its statewide ranking in 2023–24, but most of its current math and science results are suppressed because of small class sizes. Only 11th grade reading is reported, at 33.33% versus 36.78% statewide, and the graduation rate is 78.1%.
Two things matter most for families here. First, poverty is near-universal — 98.62% to 100% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch — yet class sizes are small, with 8 to 11.4 students per teacher, and the elementary school still beats the state in math. Second, the clearest opportunities are elementary reading after 3rd grade and middle-school math, while elementary math and middle-school reading are the community's strongest points of pride. Suppressed scores reflect privacy protections for small groups of students, not poor performance.
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