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Best Elementary Schools in Zip Code 88352


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440
Students
Top rankedTularosa Intermediate159th of 346 New Mexico elementary schools
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Tularosa Intermediate up 74 spots statewide this year
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Summary:

Zip code 88352 covers the Tularosa area of New Mexico and contains two elementary-level schools, both part of Tularosa Municipal Schools: Tularosa Elementary, which serves grades PK–2 with 230 students, and Tularosa Intermediate, which serves grades 3–6 with 210 students. Poverty is near-universal here, with 98.7% of students at Tularosa Elementary and 100% at Tularosa Intermediate receiving free or reduced-price lunch. The district as a whole is ranked 69 of 87 in the state, at the 21st percentile with 1 star, and its own average scores trail the state in both English language arts and math.

Tularosa Intermediate is the standout. In 2025–2026 it ranked 159 of 346, placing at the 54th percentile with 3 stars — up from the 32nd percentile and 2 stars the prior year. Its all-grade results beat the state in English language arts (51.56 versus 44.66 on NM-MSSA) and math (30.73 versus 27.85), and it also exceeds the state on the combined language arts and math measures. Grade by grade, 3rd-grade ELA (55.88) and 5th-grade ELA (50.00) are well above the state averages of 44.72 and 42.26, while 4th grade sits just below state in both ELA and math. Fifth-grade science is the weakest area at 28.07 versus the state's 32.24, but it climbed from 11.25 the year before. All-grade ELA rose 12.45 points and math 8.07 points year over year.

Tularosa Elementary shows a promising signal, but the data here are thin. Its only current test result is all-grade Language Arts at 48.65, above the district's 38.73 and the state's 43.34, despite a 98.7% free/reduced-lunch rate. There is no math, science, or grade-level breakdown for this school, and its only ranking history dates to 2004–2006, so it is not reliable evidence of today's performance. Notably, staffing ratios do not track with results: Tularosa Elementary has the lower student/teacher ratio at 13.3, while Tularosa Intermediate has 17.8, yet Tularosa Intermediate has the stronger and more complete academic record. Together, these two schools show that a high-poverty, low-ranked district can still produce above-state results.

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