Summary:
ZIP code 88310 in Alamogordo, New Mexico is home to two middle schools serving grades 6–8 within Alamogordo Public Schools: Chaparral Middle with 513 students and Mountain View Middle with 479 students, for a total of 992 middle-schoolers. The district ranks 41st of 87 in New Mexico, at the 53rd percentile with 3 stars. Both schools report 100% free/reduced lunch in 2024–25, so the performance differences between them are not explained by differing school-level economic-disadvantage rates.
Chaparral Middle is the stronger of the two, ranking 80th of 191 schools in 2025–26 at the 58th percentile with 3 stars, holding steady from 57th percentile the year before. Its mathematics is a clear strength: all-grades math proficiency is 33.20%, above the district's 30.23% and the state's 25.54%, and 6th-grade math is 44.58%, far above the state's 31.89%. Its 8th-grade outcomes also stand out — language arts at 54.35% and science at 43.80%, both above district and state. Chaparral improved in math (28.57% to 33.20%) and 8th-grade science (37.79% to 43.80%) while slipping slightly in ELA (45.51% to 43.98%). Its student/teacher ratio of 13.6 is also slightly better than Mountain View's 14.5, despite larger enrollment.
Mountain View Middle is the clear priority for improvement. It ranked 126th of 191 in 2025–26 at the 34th percentile with 2 stars, down from 46th percentile in 2024–25 and 61st percentile with 3 stars in 2023–24 — a 27-point decline over three years. In 2025–26 it fell below the district and state in every reported metric, with acute weaknesses in 7th-grade math (19.69%), 8th-grade math (18.67%), and 6th-grade math (25.49%). Its 8th-grade science dropped 9.21 points, from 42.75% to 33.54%, now just below the state. Chaparral leads Mountain View in every reported grade and subject, with the widest gap in 6th-grade math at 19.09 points.
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