Espanola
New Mexico's Kindergarten Class Has Shrunk 20% Since 2016
In 2015-16, New Mexico's public schools enrolled 3,520 more kindergartners than 12th-graders. That surplus meant the system was replenishing itself: more students entering at the bottom than exiting a...
59 New Mexico Districts at Record-Low Enrollment
New Mexico's public schools enrolled 298,353 students in 2025-26, falling below 300,000 for the first time in the state's dataset. That 2.7% single-year drop, a loss of 8,333 students, is the largest ...
Six Years After COVID, 93 Districts Still Haven't Recovered
The pandemic was supposed to be a temporary shock. Albuquerque lost 6,684 students between 2019 and 2021, an extraordinary loss for any two-year period. But the five years since have been worse: APS s...
Espanola Has Lost More Than a Third of Its Students
In 2015-16, Espanola Public Schools enrolled 3,955 students. By 2025-26, that number had fallen to 2,480, a loss of 1,475 students and 37.3% of the district's enrollment. Among New Mexico districts th...
New Mexico Falls Below 300,000 Students
In 10 years of enrollment data, New Mexico has had exactly one year without a decline: 2021-22, when the state gained four students. Four. Every other year, the count dropped. In 2025-26, it dropped b...