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VISTA GRANDE HIGH SCHOOL → TAOS ACADEMY → JEMEZ VALLEY HIGH → MESA VISTA HIGH → ESCALANTE MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL → MORA HIGH → ESTANCIA VALLEY CLASSICAL ACADEMY → PECOS HIGH →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 22% of US high schools
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 95% (75th percentile nationally)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts graduation data, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Questa High compares for families
What families should know about Questa High.
- ▸ LocallyNM trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−9 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: VISTA GRANDE HIGH SCHOOL, TAOS ACADEMY, JEMEZ VALLEY HIGH and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: 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?
75th percentile nationally
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
≥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
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.
Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the strongest early indicator of dropout, transfer-out, and family disengagement. A school's absenteeism trend forecasts its enrollment trend 1-3 years out.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 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 +4.1%/year, projecting from 2024's 100 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VISTA GRANDE HIGH SCHOOL TAOS |
Public · charter | 24.2 | 69 | -10.4% |
| TAOS ACADEMY TAOS |
Public · charter | 23.9 | 162 | -4.1% |
| JEMEZ VALLEY HIGH JEMEZ PUEBLO |
Public | 97.9 | 103 | +12.0% |
| MESA VISTA HIGH OJO CALIENTE |
Public | 36.8 | 93 | -7.9% |
| ESCALANTE MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL TIERRA AMARILLA |
Public | 54.9 | 90 | -13.5% |
| MORA HIGH MORA |
Public | 54.2 | 86 | -33.8% |
| ESTANCIA VALLEY CLASSICAL ACADEMY EDGEWOOD |
Public · charter | 118.9 | 120 | -16.7% |
| PECOS HIGH PECOS |
Public | 79.3 | 130 | -26.6% |