Schools in Zip Code 88401

ZIP code 88401 covers Tucumcari, New Mexico, home to three public schools serving pre-kindergarten through 12th grade in Tucumcari Public Schools: Tucumcari Elementary (PK–5), Tucumcari Middle (6–8), and Tucumcari High (9–12), with a combined enrollment of 911 students. Free/reduced lunch rates are essentially universal — 100% at the elementary and high schools and 99.53% at the middle school — and student-teacher ratios are similar across all three, from 13.6 to 14.8. The district ranks 59th of 87 in New Mexico, at the 32nd percentile with 2 stars, but the individual schools differ sharply.

Tucumcari High is the clear standout. It ranked at the 64th percentile with 3 stars in 2025–2026 and reached the 71st percentile with 4 stars the year before — both well above the district's 32nd percentile. Its science results lead the area: 11th-grade NM-ASR science came in at 52.27% versus the state's 34.27% in 2025–2026, after 66.04% versus 41.69% the prior year. Eleventh-grade ELA was slightly below state (33.33% versus 36.78% on NM Combined), math was reported only as under 20% for combined all grades — below the state's 25.54% — and its graduation rate of 76.0% trails the state's 80.6%.

Tucumcari Middle has slipped from the 64th percentile with 3 stars in 2023–2024 to the 35th percentile with 2 stars in 2025–2026, and math is its biggest challenge: 6th grade 14.06% versus state 32.13%, 7th grade 16.9% versus 27.1%, and 8th grade 11.94% versus 20.5%. Its ELA is closer to state (41.58% versus 44.66%) and was above state the prior year at 51.05%, while 8th-grade science is near state at 32.84%. Tucumcari Elementary sits consistently in the lower third of the state at the 30th percentile with 2 stars; its math (23.67% versus state 27.85%) is above the district's 18.6% and improved about 8 points from 15.64%, its ELA (42.01% versus 44.66%) is slightly below state, and 5th-grade science fell below state at 25% versus 32.24%.