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NEW AMERICA SCHOOL

ALBUQUERQUE · NM · ALBUQUERQUE · Public charter

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Programs & features
  • Program details not reported to CRDC
Academic signals
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 30% (Bottom 6% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How NEW AMERICA SCHOOL compares for families

What families should know about NEW AMERICA SCHOOL.

  • LocallyNM trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−9 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: RIO GRANDE HIGH, SCHOOL ON WHEELS HIGH SCHOOL, LA ACADEMIA DE ESPERANZA and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts

What % of students graduate on time?

Bottom 6% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
30%
Range: 21–39%
4-year cohort size
16
Students in the 9th-grade entry class tracked over 4 years
Compared against
17,988
US high schools reporting 4-year ACGR

Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.

🏛️ Federal Title I context

High-poverty school

Title I Schoolwide eligible

99.2%
FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).
0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.

Chronic absenteeism

Share of students absent 15+ days
165.6%
Well above the national average (~16%). At this level, chronic absence becomes a leading driver of enrollment loss as families rotate to other schools.
Students absent 15+ days
217
Federal definition: absent (excused or unexcused) for at least 15 of ~180 school days — about 10% of the school year.

Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of -14.6%/year, projecting from 2024's 131 students:

2025
112
2027
82
2029
60

A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.

An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.

Nearby high schools — the local competition

The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
RIO GRANDE HIGH
ALBUQUERQUE
Public 0.9 1,475 -9.7%
SCHOOL ON WHEELS HIGH SCHOOL
ALBUQUERQUE
Public 1.4 65 -27.0%
LA ACADEMIA DE ESPERANZA
ALBUQUERQUE
Public · charter 1.7 238 +9.2%
EL CAMINO REAL ACADEMY
ALBUQUERQUE
Public · charter 2.0 100 +42.9%
SOUTH VALLEY ACADEMY
ALBUQUERQUE
Public · charter 2.1 321 -3.9%
MARK ARMIJO ACADEMY
ALBUQUERQUE
Public · charter 2.4 233 +17.1%
SIEMBRA LEADERSHIP HIGH SCHOOL
ALBUQUERQUE
Public · charter 2.7 452 +91.5%
AMY BIEHL CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL
ALBUQUERQUE
Public · charter 2.7 196 -16.9%

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