Wednesday, April 15, 2026

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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...