New Mexico school safety

Start with what you will not find. Of the 894 New Mexico schools in the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection, 455 carry a published safety score. The rest show none. A blank is not a warning. It means the school's report to the federal collection was too thin for us to stand behind — either too sparse to believe for a school that size, or sparse in a way a small school could plausibly produce honestly.

Ninety-four schools in the state fall into the doubtful range, graded D or E. Schools of the same size normally report several incidents, or ten or more; these reported almost none. That is 10.5% of New Mexico's schools, against 11.3% nationally. The difference is small, and it is a difference in paperwork. Nothing here measures whether children are safe. It measures whether a school wrote down what happened and sent it in.

Why most districts on this page are not ranked

New Mexico has 150 school districts. Sixteen have enough scoreable schools to be ranked against districts nationally. The others are not being hidden from you. A district ranking only means something once enough of its schools have records we believe, and most districts here do not clear that bar.

Among the sixteen, Roswell Independent Schools ranks safer than 83% of ranked US districts, with 15 of the 22 schools in its scored set complete enough to score. Alamogordo Public Schools is at 77%, with 7 of 15. Gallup-McKinley Cty Schools is at 72%, with 27 of 32. Santa Fe Public Schools is at 64%, with 24 of 29. Clovis Municipal Schools is at 61%, with 16 of 18.

Read those completeness figures next to the ranks. A district ranked on 7 of 15 schools is telling you less than one ranked on 27 of 32. And the comparison is not adjusted for state. Each school is measured against roughly 1,500 schools nationwide closest to it in enrollment that teach the same grades. Where states differ in this data, they differ in reporting behavior.

So here is the useful thing to take from this page. Find your school. If it has a score, its record is one we can vouch for. If it does not, that is a question worth asking the principal directly: what did we report that year, and why so little? A school with nothing to hide can answer it in a sentence.

Safest ranked cities in New Mexico

Percentile is against all ranked U.S. cities (higher = safer). Only cities with ≥5 trustworthy-data schools are ranked. Home value is Zillow's ZHVI.

Safest ranked districts

Every New Mexico city with schools

Every New Mexico school district