Public school / Middle
Desert Ridge Middle
Albuquerque, New Mexico
- NCES ID
- 350006000764
- District
- Albuquerque Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Desert Ridge Middle is a public middle school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, run by Albuquerque Public Schools. It enrols 816 students — the 13592nd 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
816
Teachers
59.0
Students per teacher
13.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
16.5%
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 Albuquerque 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.
- 1Volcano Vista High2,216 students
- 2Atrisco Heritage Academy Hs2,114 students
- 3La Cueva High1,816 students
- 4West Mesa High1,799 students
- 5Cibola High1,762 students
- 6Sandia High1,728 students
- 7Albuquerque High1,714 students
- 8Eldorado High1,622 students
- Enrollment+196.7%
- Teachers+195.0%
- Students per teacher−0.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−83.5%
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