Public school / Primary
Gil Sanchez Elementary
Belen, New Mexico
- NCES ID
- 350018000144
- District
- Belen Consolidated Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Gil Sanchez Elementary is a public primary school in Belen, New Mexico, run by Belen Consolidated Schools. It enrols 297 students — the 66007th 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
297
Teachers
22.0
Students per teacher
13.5
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 Belen Consolidated 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.
- 1Belen High1,027 students
- 2Belen Middle528 students
- 3La Merced Elementary437 students
- 4Rio Grande Elementary357 students
- 5Gil Sanchez Elementary297 students
- 6Dennis Chavez Elementary296 students
- 7Central Elementary223 students
- 8La Promesa Elementary203 students
- Enrollment+8.0%
- Teachers+10.0%
- Students per teacher−2.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch0.0%
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