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Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 6

Bluewater Elementary, Bluewater, NM

CEP schoolBluewater Elementary is a public elementary school in Bluewater, part of Grants School District. It enrolled 63 students in 2024-25, with 5.7 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "BLUEWATER ELEMENTARY".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
63
Teachers (FTE)
11.0
Students per teacher
5.7
Grades
K to 6

This school's ratio is 3.8 lower than the district figure of 9.5. The New Mexico average across schools is 13.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school5.7
District9.5
New Mexico13.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
15 West Chess Rd, Bluewater, NM 87005
Phone
(505)285-2694
District
Grants School District
County
Cibola County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Rural: Distant
NCES school ID
350117000327
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
39
Reduced-price lunch
0
Free or reduced-price lunch
3961.9% of enrollment.
Direct certification
28Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

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 Grants School District

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.