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Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 6

Vado Elementary, Vado, NM

CEP schoolVado Elementary is a public elementary school in Vado, part of Gadsden School District. It enrolled 415 students in 2024-25, with 12.6 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "VADO ELEMENTARY".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
415
Teachers (FTE)
33.0
Students per teacher
12.6
Grades
PK to 6

This school's ratio is 0.9 lower than 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.

This school12.6
District13.5
New Mexico13.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
330 Holguin Rd, Vado, NM 88072
Phone
(575)882-6203
District
Gadsden School District
County
Doña Ana County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Rural: Distant
NCES school ID
350108000934
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
415
Reduced-price lunch
0
Free or reduced-price lunch
415100.0% of enrollment.
Direct certification
263Students 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 Gadsden 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.