Best High Schools in Zip Code 88415

ZIP code 88415, in Clayton, New Mexico, contains one high school: Clayton High, which serves grades 9–12 with 121 students and belongs to Clayton Municipal Schools. The district is rated 4 stars, ranked 14th of 87 districts statewide, and sits in the 84th percentile. Every student — 100% — is eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, meaning the school serves an entirely economically disadvantaged population. Because it is the only high school in the ZIP code, there are no local peers to compare it with; the meaningful comparisons are against its district and New Mexico as a whole.

Clayton High shows real strengths. Its graduation rate is 84.4%, about 4 percentage points above the New Mexico rate of 80.6%, and it matches the district rate exactly. Its student-teacher ratio of 7.4 is very low, which generally suggests small classes or strong staffing relative to enrollment. English/Language Arts proficiency holds steady at 33.33% across the three available school-level measures, though it trails the state in each: about 3.45 points below on NM Combined Language Arts (11th grade, 2025–2026), 3.74 points below on SAT English/Language Arts (11th grade, 2025–2026), and 5.11 points below on the same exam for 2024–2025.

There are watch points too. The school’s own ranking fell to 2 stars and the 40th percentile in 2024–2025, after 3 stars and percentiles of 53 and 55 in the two prior years; the raw rank stayed around 77–80, but fewer schools were ranked (131 instead of 170–172), shifting its relative position. School-level Math and Science scores are suppressed by the state (shown as “—”), so those subjects cannot be judged — this is unknown data, not evidence of weakness. District math and science figures do exceed state averages, but they cover other grades and schools. With only 121 students, percentages can also swing year to year.