Original Research by School Decision on Alma D'arte Charter
Alma d'Arte Charter is a single-school charter district in New Mexico serving high school grades only, ninth through twelfth. The district operates one school under the same name. Its enrollment is small even by charter high school standards, and the student body is predominantly Hispanic, with a smaller White population and a handful of Black and American Indian students. No free-or-reduced-price lunch data, IEP data, or English learner data were available, so we cannot characterize the economic makeup or the level of special-population services from what was provided.
The academic picture is largely blank in this dataset. State assessment results were not available, and no multi-year academic trend data was provided. There is no graduation rate on file. A high school with no publicly reported proficiency results, no graduation rate, and no course-access data leaves a parent without the standard academic markers most families rely on when comparing high schools. This does not necessarily mean weak performance; it means the results either were not reported in the sources we drew from or are not part of this entity's reporting profile. A parent considering Alma d'Arte would want to ask the school directly for its state assessment results, graduation cohort data, and any college-and-career readiness indicators it tracks.
The one substantive change surfaced in publicly reported data is enrollment. The district's own filings show that enrollment fell sharply between the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 school years, dropping to a reported 63 students. That represents a loss of more than half the student body in a single year at a school that was already small. A decline of that magnitude at a charter high school touches nearly everything a family cares about: funding tied to per-pupil allocations, the breadth of courses the school can staff, class composition and peer groups, and the viability of extracurriculars or electives. The most recently reported enrollment figure in the demographics section is higher, which likely reflects an earlier reporting year, so the current on-the-ground size is closer to the lower number.
No locale brief or community and economic context was provided, so we cannot describe the town, housing market, commute patterns, or broader setting the school sits in. No neighbor comparison fact-set was available either, which means we cannot position Alma d'Arte against other districts or charter schools in its county. A parent reading this should treat the geographic context as an open question.
Program offerings were not reported. We found no data on Advanced Placement, dual credit, career and technical education, arts programming, or any specialized pathways. For a high school, the absence of course-access data is a meaningful gap because a family's decision often hinges on whether the school can offer the classes their student needs. The school's name suggests an arts focus, but the dataset does not confirm any specific arts curriculum or program model, so we will not assert one.
Staffing data was absent, with no teacher counts, student-to-teacher ratios, or credential information. Discipline data was absent as well. Attendance data was not reported. Title I status was not provided. Charter and magnet status fields were blank, though the entity is classified as a charter district by its NCES identifier and name.
What we are left with is a very small single-school charter high school district in New Mexico with a predominantly Hispanic student body, a recent and substantial enrollment decline, and almost no publicly reported academic, program, staffing, or community data in the sources available. A parent interested in Alma d'Arte should go straight to the school for current enrollment figures, academic results, graduation outcomes, course offerings, and an explanation of the enrollment drop. The data we have is too thin to form a confident judgment about fit, but the enrollment trajectory alone is something a family would want to understand before enrolling.
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