County / FIPS 35005
Chaves County
New Mexico
Chaves County runs 33 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 2 Medicare-certified hospitals reporting to CMS, of which 2 carry an overall star rating.
At a glance
Public schools
33
Hospitals
2
With a star rating
2
Land area
6,067
Chaves County in numbers
American Community Survey five-year estimates ending 2024. These are sample estimates, not a count — each carries a margin of error, and where that margin is too wide to mean anything the figure is withheld rather than printed.
Population
64,217
Median household income
$52,938
Poverty rate
24.3%
Unemployment rate
5.0%
Median home value
$156,400
Median gross rent
$867
Bachelor's degree or higher
17.9%
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Chaves County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$449.3M
Per resident
$6,895
Change since FY2021
+7%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $421M |
| 2022 | $330M |
| 2023 | $340M |
| 2024 | $429M |
| 2025 | $449M |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. Chaves County ranks 937th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Chaves County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Eastern New Mexico Medical Center | Roswell | |
| Lovelace Regional Hospital - Roswell | Roswell |
Public schools in Chaves County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berrendo Elementary | Roswell Independent Schools | Roswell | 344 |
| Berrendo Middle | Roswell Independent Schools | Roswell | 663 |
| Del Norte Elementary | Roswell Independent Schools | Roswell | 509 |
| Dexter Elementary | Dexter Consolidated Schools | Dexter | 362 |
| Dexter High | Dexter Consolidated Schools | Dexter | 254 |
| Dexter Middle | Dexter Consolidated Schools | Dexter | 196 |
| Early College High School | Roswell Independent Schools | Roswell | 177 |
| East Grand Plains Elementary | Roswell Independent Schools | Roswell | 217 |
| El Capitan Elementary | Roswell Independent Schools | Roswell | 396 |
| Hagerman Elementary | Hagerman Municipal Schools | Hagerman | 180 |
| Hagerman High | Hagerman Municipal Schools | Hagerman | 114 |
| Hagerman Middle | Hagerman Municipal Schools | Hagerman | 74 |
| Lake Arthur Elementary | Lake Arthur Municipal Schools | Lake Arthur | 61 |
| Mesa Middle | Roswell Independent Schools | Roswell | 422 |
| Military Heights Elementary | Roswell Independent Schools | Roswell | 404 |
| Missouri Ave Elementary | Roswell Independent Schools | Roswell | 301 |
| Monterrey Elementary | Roswell Independent Schools | Roswell | 409 |
| Mountain View Middle | Roswell Independent Schools | Roswell | 520 |
| Nancy Lopez Elementary | Roswell Independent Schools | Roswell | 205 |
| Parkview Early Literacy Center | Roswell Independent Schools | Roswell | 251 |
| Pecos Elementary | Roswell Independent Schools | Roswell | 275 |
| Sidney Gutierrez Middle | Roswell Independent Schools | Roswell | 196 |
| Sierra Middle | Roswell Independent Schools | Roswell | 627 |
| Sunset Elementary | Roswell Independent Schools | Roswell | 244 |
| University High | Roswell Independent Schools | Roswell | 167 |
| Valley View Elementary | Roswell Independent Schools | Roswell | 463 |
| Washington Ave Elementary | Roswell Independent Schools | Roswell | 318 |
| Goddard High | Roswell Independent Schools | Roswell | 1,155 |
| Roswell High | Roswell Independent Schools | Roswell | 1,438 |
| Lake Arthur High | Lake Arthur Municipal Schools | Lake Arthur | 40 |
| Lake Arthur Middle | Lake Arthur Municipal Schools | Lake Arthur | 35 |
| Penasco Elementary | Artesia Public Schools | Hope | 18 |
| Roswell Corrections | Nm Corrections | Hagerman | — |