NEW AMERICA SCHOOL

ALBUQUERQUE · NM · ALBUQUERQUE · Public charter

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ALBUQUERQUE INSTITUTE OF MATH & SCIENCE → TIERRA ADENTRO → LOS PUENTES CHARTER → ALBUQUERQUE TALENT DEVELOPMENT CHARTER → EL CAMINO REAL ACADEMY → NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY ACADEMY → FREEDOM HIGH → GORDON BERNELL CHARTER →

📋 At a glance

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: ALBUQUERQUE INSTITUTE OF MATH & SCIENCE, TIERRA ADENTRO, LOS PUENTES CHARTER 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

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.

🏛️ 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.

See the full University of New Mexico-Main Campus profile → Estimate your odds with your scores →

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

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 -15.0%/year, projecting from 2024's 131 students:

2025

111

2027

80

2029

58

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.

Most similar nearby high schools

The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.

School	Type	Miles	HS enrollment	Trend
ALBUQUERQUE INSTITUTE OF MATH & SCIENCE ALBUQUERQUE	Public · charter	2.9	138	-18.3%
TIERRA ADENTRO ALBUQUERQUE	Public · charter	3.6	127	+11.4%
LOS PUENTES CHARTER ALBUQUERQUE	Public · charter	5.5	129	+27.7%
ALBUQUERQUE TALENT DEVELOPMENT CHARTER ALBUQUERQUE	Public · charter	4.2	119	+9.2%
EL CAMINO REAL ACADEMY ALBUQUERQUE	Public · charter	2.0	100	+42.9%
NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY ACADEMY ALBUQUERQUE	Public · charter	4.1	169	-15.5%
FREEDOM HIGH ALBUQUERQUE	Public	6.4	111	+11.0%
GORDON BERNELL CHARTER ALBUQUERQUE	Public · charter	4.7	175	+6.7%