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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 ...
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...
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...