Schools in Zip Code 88435

ZIP code 88435 covers Santa Rosa, New Mexico, where three public schools serve the community: Santa Rosa Elementary (PK–5, 203 students), Santa Rosa Middle (grades 6–8, 94 students), and Santa Rosa High (grades 9–12, 193 students). All three belong to Santa Rosa Consolidated Schools, and all three report free/reduced-lunch rates at or near universal poverty, between 95.6% and 100%. Class sizes are small throughout, ranging from 8.5 to 11.6 students per teacher.

Santa Rosa Middle is the standout: it holds a 4-star rating and has ranked in the 72nd–78th percentile of New Mexico middle schools for three straight years, beating the state in both English/language arts and mathematics while serving a 100% low-income population. Its 8th-grade ELA proficiency is 72.41%, nearly 29 points above the state. Santa Rosa Elementary is solidly above average with 3 stars and steady 55th–60th percentile rankings; it outperforms the state in every grade-level ELA measure and gained 7.8 points in ELA and 6.5 points in math year over year. Santa Rosa High is the weakest academically — 0 stars, 6th percentile, math proficiency under 5% — yet it graduates 91.7% of students versus the state's 80.6%.

Mathematics is the shared challenge: the gap between ELA and math proficiency is wider locally than statewide at both the elementary school (23.4 points) and the middle school (32.2 points), and the high school's math results are bounded at under 5%. Class size does not track performance here — the lowest-performing school has the smallest classes. The district's overall 1-star rating masks wide variation between buildings, so families should compare individual schools rather than the district average. One caveat: 8th-grade math at the middle school is suppressed by the state, so it is unknown rather than necessarily weak.