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Public school / Middle

Garfield Middle

Albuquerque, New Mexico

NCES ID
350006000056
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Garfield Middle is a public middle school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, run by Albuquerque Public Schools. It enrols 315 students — the 63520th largest of 935 public schools in New Mexico.

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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

315students

63520th nationally, tied with 138

Teachers

26.0FTE

50791st nationally, tied with 2,332

Students per teacher

12.1students

21308th nationally, tied with 732

Free or reduced-price lunch

100.0%percent

1st nationally, tied with 3,753

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.

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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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Volcano Vista High2,216 students
  2. 2Atrisco Heritage Academy Hs2,114 students
  3. 3La Cueva High1,816 students
  4. 4West Mesa High1,799 students
  5. 5Cibola High1,762 students
  6. 6Sandia High1,728 students
  7. 7Albuquerque High1,714 students
  8. 8Eldorado High1,622 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: New Mexico median across 935 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+14.5%
  • Teachers+30.0%
  • Students per teacher−12.9%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch0.0%
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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.