Public school / Primary
Chamisa Elementary
White Rock, New Mexico
- NCES ID
- 350165000429
- District
- Los Alamos Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Chamisa Elementary is a public primary school in White Rock, New Mexico, run by Los Alamos Public Schools. It enrols 321 students — the 62685th largest of 935 public schools in New Mexico.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
321
Teachers
25.0
Students per teacher
12.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
13.1%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Los Alamos Public Schools
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Los Alamos High860 students
- 2Los Alamos Middle613 students
- 3Aspen Elementary445 students
- 4Mountain Elementary421 students
- 5Barranca Mesa Elementary419 students
- 6Pinon Elementary340 students
- 7Chamisa Elementary321 students
- 8Topper Freshman Academy305 students
- Enrollment+16.7%
- Teachers+25.0%
- Students per teacher−7.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−86.9%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory