Best High Schools in Zip Code 88352

ZIP code 88352 contains exactly one public high school: Tularosa High, serving grades 9–12 in Tularosa, New Mexico. It belongs to Tularosa Municipal Schools and enrolls 303 students, with a 13:1 student-teacher ratio. Nearly the entire student body — 99.67% — qualifies for free or reduced lunch, so this is a small, high-poverty community school. Because there are no other high schools nearby to compare against, the most useful benchmarks are the district and New Mexico state averages.

Academically, Tularosa High in 2025–2026 performed at or slightly above New Mexico averages in every reported 11th-grade subject. English language arts proficiency was 38.57% versus the state's 36.78%, and science was 38.03% versus 34.02% on NM Combined and 34.27% on NM-ASR — the school's biggest relative advantage. Mathematics is the clear weak spot: only 12.86% of students were proficient, barely above the state's 12.72%. Graduation is a genuine strength, with a 91.4% rate compared with the state's 80.6%, about 10.8 percentage points higher. For trend context, the school's science score rose from 37.14% in 2024–2025, when it was below that year's state figure, to 38.03%, while its ELA score slipped from 40% to 38.57% but stayed above state both years.

Statewide, the school has moved up steadily. It ranked 107th of 172 schools in 2023–2024 with 2 stars, then 67th of 131 with 2 stars, and reached 66th of 132 — the 50th percentile — with 3 stars in 2025–2026. That contrasts with district-level results: Tularosa Municipal Schools sits at 69th of 87, the 21st percentile, with 1 star, though the two rankings use different pools and methodologies and are not directly equivalent. The overall picture for parents is a school with strong graduation outcomes, solid ELA and science results, and real improvement in its state rating, alongside a mathematics proficiency rate that remains very low in absolute terms. Data here is limited to one high school and a short window of years, so trends should be read with that caution.