County / FIPS 35007
Colfax County
New Mexico
Colfax County runs 16 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 1 Medicare-certified hospital reporting to CMS.
At a glance
Public schools
16
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
0
Land area
3,758
Colfax 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
12,322
Median household income
$53,554
Poverty rate
18.2%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$167,200
Median gross rent
$729
Bachelor's degree or higher
25.4%
One figure is withheld above. The Census Bureau publishes them, but with a margin of error wider than 30% of the value — which for a place this size means the survey sampled too few households to say. They are left out rather than shown with a caveat nobody reads.
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Colfax County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$191.0M
Per resident
$15,417
Change since FY2021
+76%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $108M |
| 2022 | $98M |
| 2023 | $123M |
| 2024 | $106M |
| 2025 | $191M |
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. Colfax County ranks 1669th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Colfax County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Miners' Colfax Medical Center | Raton | Not rated |
Public schools in Colfax County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cimarron Elementary | Cimarron Municipal Schools | Cimarron | 59 |
| Cimarron High | Cimarron Municipal Schools | Cimarron | 72 |
| Eagle Nest Elementary | Cimarron Municipal Schools | Eagle Nest | 96 |
| Eagle Nest Middle | Cimarron Municipal Schools | Eagle Nest | 73 |
| Longfellow Elementary | Raton Public Schools | Raton | 251 |
| Moreno Valley High | Cimarron Municipal Schools | Angel Fire | 52 |
| Raton Intermediate | Raton Public Schools | Raton | 234 |
| Springer High | Springer Municipal Schools | Springer | 53 |
| Raton High | Raton Public Schools | Raton | 359 |
| Cimarron Middle | Cimarron Municipal Schools | Cimarron | 49 |
| Forrester Elementary | Springer Municipal Schools | Springer | 30 |
| Maxwell Elementary | Maxwell Municipal Schools | Maxwell | 46 |
| Maxwell High | Maxwell Municipal Schools | Maxwell | 40 |
| Maxwell Middle | Maxwell Municipal Schools | Maxwell | 20 |
| Wilferth Elementary | Springer Municipal Schools | Springer | 28 |
| Springer Correctional Facility | Nm Corrections | Springer | — |