This is a special-education school. It serves students with disabilities, who take alternate state assessments rather than the SAT/ACT. College-prep measures like test participation and AP rigor aren't collected here and don't reflect what this school does.
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👩‍🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC

Teacher experience & reliability

% inexperienced teachers (1st-2nd yr)
0%
Strong: experienced corps. New teachers rotate through but most have ≥3 years in.
% chronic teacher absence (≥10 days/yr)
26.7%
Elevated. Teacher absence directly affects classroom continuity and student outcomes.

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.

🏛️ Your state's public flagship

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

96%
admit rate
$10,140
in-state tuition/yr · $33,060 out-of-state
900–1160
SAT 25–75 · ACT 19–26

The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $15,489/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.

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Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.

Enrollment trend & projection

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

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of +5.9%/year, projecting from 2024's 45 students:

2025
48
2027
53
2029
60

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

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