Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5
Desert Star Elementary, Alamogordo, NM
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 466
- Teachers (FTE)
- 30.0
- Students per teacher
- 15.5
- Grades
- K to 5
This school's ratio is 0.9 higher than the district figure of 14.6. 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
- 400 S Washington Ave, Alamogordo, NM 88310
- Phone
- (575)812-5750
- District
- Alamogordo School District
- County
- Otero County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Town: Remote
- NCES school ID
- 350003000012
School meals
- Free lunch
- 466
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 466100.0% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 259Students 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 Alamogordo School District
- Holloman Elementary 517 students
- Sunset Hills Elementary 436 students
- Sierra Elementary 284 students
- LA Luz Elementary 224 students
- Buena Vista Elementary 222 students
- Yucca Elementary 179 students
- North Elementary 159 students
- High Rolls Mountain Park Elementary 21 students
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.