Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8
Thoreau Middle, Thoreau, NM
CEP schoolThoreau Middle is a public middle school in Thoreau, part of Gallup School District. It enrolled 362 students in 2024-25, with 7.7 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "THOREAU MIDDLE".
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 362
- Teachers (FTE)
- 47.0
- Students per teacher
- 7.7
- Grades
- 6 to 8
The New Mexico average across schools is 13.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
This school7.7
New Mexico13.2
United States15.3
School details
- Address
- 8 Hawk Circle, Thoreau, NM 87323
- Phone
- (505)721-4600
- District
- Gallup School District
- County
- McKinley County
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Rural: Remote
- NCES school ID
- 350111000663
School meals
Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
- Free lunch
- 301
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 30183.1% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 184Students 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 Gallup School District
- John F. Kennedy Middle 648 students
- Chief Manuelito Middle 634 students
- Gallup Middle 480 students
- Tohatchi Middle 297 students
- Crownpoint Middle 226 students
- Navajo Middle School 224 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.