Gallup-McKinley County Schools
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 ...
One in Six New Mexico Students Is an English Learner
New Mexico lost 36,778 students between 2019 and 2026, an 11% decline that touched nearly every district in the state. English learner enrollment moved in the opposite direction. The state counted 53,...
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...
New Mexico's 2026 Enrollment Drop Is the Second-Largest on Record
Last year, New Mexico's enrollment appeared to be stabilizing. The state lost 4,211 students in 2024-25, a fraction of the COVID-era crash, and superintendents could reasonably hope the worst had pass...
Albuquerque Has Lost Students for 10 Straight Years
No district in New Mexico has gained students and lost them in the same breath quite like Albuquerque has avoided gaining them at all. Since 2016, APS enrollment has fallen every single year. Not once...
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...
Native American Students Fall Below 10% of NM Enrollment
New Mexico is one of three states where Native American children make up at least 10% of public school enrollment. Or it was. In 2025-26, Native American students slipped to 9.9% of enrollment, the fi...
Gallup Loses a Quarter of Its Students in One Year
Gallup-McKinley County Schools reported 12,737 students last year. This year it reported 9,395. The 3,342-student drop, a 26.2% loss in a single year, is the third-largest single-year district loss in...
New Mexico Publishes 2025-26 Enrollment Data
A year ago, New Mexico lost 4,211 students. Superintendents talked about stabilization. The post-COVID hemorrhage, which had erased 14,323 students in a single year, seemed to be easing. The state had...