High · Alternative · Grades 6 to 12
Gallup Central Alternative, Gallup, NM
CEP schoolGallup Central Alternative is a public high school in Gallup, part of Gallup School District. It enrolled 1,244 students in 2024-25, with 13.0 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "GALLUP CENTRAL ALTERNATIVE".
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 1,244
- Teachers (FTE)
- 96.0
- Students per teacher
- 13.0
- Grades
- 6 to 12
The New Mexico average across schools is 13.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
This school13.0
New Mexico13.2
United States15.3
School details
- Address
- 325 Marguerite St, Gallup, NM 87301
- Phone
- (505)721-1051
- District
- Gallup School District
- County
- McKinley County
- Level
- High
- Type
- Alternative
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Town: Remote
- NCES school ID
- 350111000545
School meals
Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
- Free lunch
- 615
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 61549.4% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 286Students 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 high schools in Gallup School District
- Miyamura High School 1,237 students
- Gallup High 796 students
- Thoreau High 389 students
- Crownpoint High 279 students
- Tohatchi High 279 students
- Ramah High 269 students
- Navajo Pine High 140 students
- Tse Yi Gai High 64 students
High schools elsewhere in Gallup
- Middle College High School Charter - Gallup Middle College High School Charter - Gallup
- Six Directions Indigenous School Six Directions Indigenous School
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.