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MCCURDY CHARTER SCHOOL → Camino De Paz School → Valley Baptist Academy → POJOAQUE HIGH → LOS ALAMOS HIGH → MESA VISTA HIGH → ASPEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL → PENASCO HIGH →📋 At a glance
- 📚 6 AP courses offered — Strong
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🎓 AP rigor: 64th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 65th percentile by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 63% (Bottom 12% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How ESPANOLA VALLEY HIGH compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor at the 64th percentile nationally with 6 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyNM trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−9 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: MCCURDY CHARTER SCHOOL, Camino De Paz School, Valley Baptist Academy and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Strong — solid AP program + advanced courses
64th percentile nationally
✅ Gifted/talented program
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-2165th percentile by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 12% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
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.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
Chronic absenteeism
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 ÷ 2023 total enrollment.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -1.3%/year, projecting from 2023's 836 students:
≈ 53 fewer students by 2028 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $15,436 per student in district revenue, the 53 students projected to be lost by 2028 represent ≈ $818,108/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCCURDY CHARTER SCHOOL ESPANOLA |
Public · charter | 1.0 | 166 | +2.5% |
| Camino De Paz School Santa Cruz |
Private | 1.6 | 14 | — |
| Valley Baptist Academy Espanola |
Private | 2.7 | 39 | — |
| POJOAQUE HIGH SANTA FE |
Public | 9.2 | 550 | -13.7% |
| LOS ALAMOS HIGH LOS ALAMOS |
Public | 17.7 | 1,181 | +33.3% |
| MESA VISTA HIGH OJO CALIENTE |
Public | 22.3 | 93 | -7.9% |
| ASPEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL SANTA FE |
Public | 22.8 | 15 | — |
| PENASCO HIGH PENASCO |
Public | 22.8 | 75 | -22.7% |