Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Capitan Middle, Capitan, NM

CEP schoolCapitan Middle is a public middle school in Capitan, part of Capitan School District. It enrolled 102 students in 2024-25, with 12.8 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "CAPITAN MIDDLE".

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 102
Teachers (FTE): 8.0
Students per teacher: 12.8
Grades: 6 to 8

This school's ratio is 2.3 higher than the district figure of 10.5. The New Mexico average across schools is 13.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school12.8

District10.5

New Mexico13.2

United States15.3

School details

Address: 519 Smokey Bear Blvd, Capitan, NM 88316
Phone: (575)354-2239
District: Capitan School District
County: Lincoln County
Level: Middle
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Rural: Distant
NCES school ID: 350027000544

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 31
Reduced-price lunch: 0
Free or reduced-price lunch: 3130.4% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 31Students 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.

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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.