Public school / Primary
Chaparral Elementary
Chaparral, New Mexico
- NCES ID
- 350108000659
- District
- Gadsden Independent Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Chaparral Elementary is a public primary school in Chaparral, New Mexico, run by Gadsden Independent Schools. It enrols 420 students — the 48056th 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
420
Teachers
36.0
Students per teacher
11.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
100.0%
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 Gadsden Independent 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.
- 1Gadsden High1,322 students
- 2Santa Teresa High1,198 students
- 3Chaparral High1,067 students
- 4Gadsden Middle661 students
- 5Santa Teresa Middle625 students
- 6Chaparral Middle608 students
- 7Santa Teresa Elementary501 students
- 8Desert Trail Elementary496 students
- Enrollment+52.7%
- Teachers+80.0%
- Students per teacher−15.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch0.0%
Where this sits
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