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Best High Schools in Zip Code 88260

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850

Students

Top rankedLovington High98^th of 132 New Mexico high schools

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Summary:

ZIP code 88260 in Lovington, New Mexico contains two public high schools — Lovington High and New Hope Alternative High — both serving grades 9–12 within Lovington Municipal Schools and together enrolling 850 students.

Lovington High is the larger comprehensive school, with 746 students and a graduation rate of 88.3% in 2024–2025 — above the district rate of 83.8% and the state rate of 80.6%. Its 11th-grade test proficiency is above the district in every reported subject, including Language Arts and Science, but below the state in all of them; math is especially low, in the single digits on both the NM Combined and SAT School Day measures. Science proficiency also fell from 35.63 to 21.86 between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026. Despite strong graduation numbers, its ranking percentile has slipped from 44 to 32 to 26, with stars dropping from 2 to 1. Nearly all of its students (99.87%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.

New Hope Alternative High is much smaller, with 104 students, and stands in sharp contrast: a graduation rate of 49.1%, far below the district and state rates, a student-teacher ratio of 24.4 compared with 15.9 at Lovington High, and 100% of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. Its school-level test proficiency values are suppressed by the state, so its academic performance is unknown from this data rather than measurable. Its most recent reported rank is from 2021–2022, at 148 of 177 (16th percentile, 1 star).

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				SAT School Day English Language Arts (2026)		SAT School Day Mathematics (2026)		NM-ASR Science (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/Discounted Lunch Recipients (2025)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	SAT School Day English Language Arts 11th Grade	SAT School Day English Language Arts All Grades	SAT School Day Mathematics 11th Grade	SAT School Day Mathematics All Grades	NM-ASR Science 11th Grade	NM-ASR Science All Grades	Total
Lovington High	Public	9-12	701 West Ave K	Lovington	88260	Lea County	Lovington Municipal Schools	No	(n/a)	No	No	(575) 739-2230	746	47	15.9	99.9%	113 (15.1%)	10 (1.3%)	617 (82.7%)	3 (0.4%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	3 (0.4%)	22.8	98^th of 132 public high schools	25.8%		26.9	89^th of 131 public high schools	32.1%	9	31.7		7.1		21.9		$9,400
New Hope Alternative High	Public	9-12	601 North 5th St	Lovington	88260	Lea County	Lovington Municipal Schools	No	(n/a)	No	No	(575) 739-2415	104	4	24.4	100.0%	13 (12.5%)	1 (1.0%)	90 (86.5%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)								(n/a)							$12,110

Cities Near Zip Code 88260

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Lovington	2.2 mi	9	80^th
Hobbs	12.64 mi	20	58^th
Tatum	22.26 mi	3	19^th
Eunice	35.05 mi	3	87^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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