Elementary · Regular · Grades 1 to 6
Harrison Schmitt Elementary, Silver City, NM
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 337
- Teachers (FTE)
- 25.0
- Students per teacher
- 13.5
- Grades
- 1 to 6
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 13.5. 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
- 4042 Hwy 90 SW, Silver City, NM 88061
- Phone
- (575)956-2170
- District
- Silver City School District
- County
- Grant County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Rural: Fringe
- NCES school ID
- 350243000561
School meals
- Free lunch
- 337
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 337100.0% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 155Students 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 Silver City School District
- G.W.Stout Elementary 334 students
- Jose Barrios Elementary 199 students
- Sixth Street Elementary 123 students
- Cliff Elementary 92 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.