Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5
Colinas del Norte Elementary, Rio Rancho, NM
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 540
- Teachers (FTE)
- 33.0
- Students per teacher
- 16.4
- Grades
- K to 5
This school's ratio is 1.5 lower than the district figure of 17.9. The New Mexico average across schools is 13.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 1001 Night Sky Ave NE, Rio Rancho, NM 87144
- Phone
- (505)896-3378
- District
- Rio Rancho School District
- County
- Sandoval County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 350001000750
School meals
- Free lunch
- 540
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 540100.0% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 256Students 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 Rio Rancho School District
- Ernest Stapleton Elementary 798 students
- Vista Grande Elementary 786 students
- Sandia Vista Elementary 713 students
- Enchanted Hills Elementary 673 students
- Cielo Azul Elementary 640 students
- Maggie Cordova Elementary School 608 students
- Joe Harris Elementary 574 students
- Martin King Jr Elementary 569 students
- Puesta del Sol Elementary 539 students
- Rio Rancho Elementary 486 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in Rio Rancho
- Explore Academy - Rio Rancho Explore Academy - Rio Rancho
- Sandoval Academy of Bilingual Education Sandoval Academy of Bilingual Education
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.