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Middle · Regular · Grades 5 to 6

Lindsey-Steiner Elementary, Portales, NM

CEP schoolLindsey-Steiner Elementary is a public middle school in Portales, part of Portales School District. It enrolled 376 students in 2024-25, with 13.4 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "LINDSEY-STEINER ELEMENTARY".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
376
Teachers (FTE)
28.0
Students per teacher
13.4
Grades
5 to 6

This school's ratio is 1.8 higher than the district figure of 11.6. The New Mexico average across schools is 13.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school13.4
District11.6
New Mexico13.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
1000 North Ave M, Portales, NM 88130
Phone
(575)356-7060
District
Portales School District
County
Roosevelt County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Town: Remote
NCES school ID
350210001073
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
375
Reduced-price lunch
0
Free or reduced-price lunch
37599.7% of enrollment.
Direct certification
192Students 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 middle schools in Portales School District

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.