Summary:
Zip code 88317 in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, is home to exactly one high school: Cloudcroft High, which serves grades 9–12 with 138 students in Cloudcroft Municipal Schools. Because it is the only high school in the area, there are no nearby peer schools to compare it with, so the most useful comparisons come from the district and state averages and from how the school's own results have changed over time.
The school's strongest result is its graduation rate: 90.8% in 2024–2025, matching the district and running 10.2 percentage points above the state's 80.6%. Eleventh-grade language arts and science also came in above state averages in 2025–2026, with language arts at 41.18% (versus state figures of 36.78% and 37.07%) and science at 38.24% (versus 34.02% and 34.27%). Science proficiency was especially high the prior year at 75%, far above the state's 41.69%, before falling to 38.24% — a swing of roughly 36.8 percentage points that is typical of a small school where one or two students can shift a rate. Math is the least clear area: every math result for the school is reported as under 20%, so it cannot be pinned to an exact figure, and while that is below the state's 25.54% in one all-grades measure, the state's 11th-grade and SAT math results are only about 12.5%–12.7%, meaning the school's under-20% bound does not prove it trails the state.
Recent rankings tell a mixed story. The district ranks 22 of 87 in New Mexico, at the 75th percentile with 4 stars, but Cloudcroft High ranked 55 of 132 high schools in 2025–2026, at the 58th percentile with 3 stars — down from 17 of 172, the 90th percentile and 5 stars, in 2023–2024. With 138 students, an average grade of about 34–35 students, a 39.86% free/reduced lunch rate, and a student-teacher ratio of 10.2, families should read year-to-year changes cautiously while noting the solid graduation and above-state reading and science results.
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