High · Alternative · Grades 9 to 12
Rio Grande Preparatory Institute, Mesilla, NM
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 46
- Teachers (FTE)
- 31.0
- Students per teacher
- 1.5
- Grades
- 9 to 12
This school's ratio is 9.7 lower than the district figure of 11.2. 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
- 2355 Avenida de Mesilla, Mesilla, NM 88046
- Phone
- (575)527-6058
- District
- Las Cruces School District
- County
- Doña Ana County
- Level
- High
- Type
- Alternative
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Midsize
- NCES school ID
- 350150000932
School meals
- Free lunch
- 46
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 46100.0% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 31Students 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 Las Cruces School District
- Organ Mountain High School 2,128 students
- Centennial High School 1,713 students
- Las Cruces High 1,703 students
- Mayfield High 1,327 students
- Arrowhead Park Early College High School 549 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.