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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school

Shining Stars Preschool

Rio Rancho, New Mexico

NCES ID
350001000953
School type
Special education
Title I
Not designated

Shining Stars Preschool is a public school in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, run by Rio Rancho Public Schools. It enrols 612 students — the 25718th 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

612students

25718th nationally, tied with 90

Teachers

36.0FTE

30710th nationally, tied with 1,648

Students per teacher

17.0students

64380th nationally, tied with 712

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.

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Within Rio Rancho 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. 1Cleveland High School2,631 students
  2. 2Rio Rancho High2,573 students
  3. 3Rio Rancho Middle School1,143 students
  4. 4Mountain View Middle937 students
  5. 5Eagle Ridge Middle823 students
  6. 6Lincoln Middle823 students
  7. 7Ernest Stapleton Elementary815 students
  8. 8Vista Grande Elementary768 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+122.5%
  • Teachers+80.0%
  • Students per teacher+22.3%
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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.