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Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 6

Barranca Mesa Elementary, Los Alamos, NM

Barranca Mesa Elementary is a public elementary school in Los Alamos, part of Los Alamos County Public Schools. It enrolled 429 students in 2024-25, with 11.6 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "BARRANCA MESA ELEMENTARY".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
429
Teachers (FTE)
37.0
Students per teacher
11.6
Grades
PK to 6

This school's ratio is 0.9 lower than the district figure of 12.5. The New Mexico average across schools is 13.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school11.6
District12.5
New Mexico13.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
57 Loma del Escolar, Los Alamos, NM 87544
Phone
(505)663-2730
District
Los Alamos County Public Schools
County
Los Alamos County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Rural: Fringe
NCES school ID
350165000428
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
50
Reduced-price lunch
6
Free or reduced-price lunch
5613.1% of enrollment.
Direct certification
54Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other elementary schools in Los Alamos County Public Schools

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.