The top reported proficiency rate is 70% in Science. The lowest is 23% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Aldo Leopold Charter
Aldo Leopold Charter is a small, single-school district in New Mexico serving grades six through twelve. The enrollment is modest, with students distributed across middle and high school grades in roughly even cohorts. The student body is predominantly white, with a substantial Hispanic share and very small representation from other racial and ethnic groups. Information on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, special education enrollment, and English learner status was not available, so the economic and linguistic profile of the community cannot be characterized from the data provided.
On state assessments for the most recent reported year, the picture is mixed and worth reading carefully by subject. In English language arts, proficiency is strong, well above what most New Mexico schools post, suggesting the school's literacy instruction is a genuine strength. Science results are even stronger, with most tested students reaching proficiency, though the tested group is small. Mathematics is the clear soft spot: proficiency sits well below the state midpoint, and a parent may want to look into this further with the school to understand how math instruction is structured and supported. These results cover only the middle school grades, since the state assessments reported here are administered in grades six through eight. High school grade levels are not included in these summary results, and no separate high school assessment data was provided.
No multi-year trend data was available, so it is not possible to say whether these results are improving, declining, or stable over time. Participation rates were also not reported. Average scale scores were missing across all three subjects, which limits the depth of comparison the numbers alone can support.
The school serves through grade twelve, but no graduation rate was included in the data. This is a gap a family with a high school student would want to fill directly, since graduation outcomes matter as much as test scores for college and career planning. No civil rights data, course access information, staffing details, attendance figures, or discipline data was provided either, so questions about teacher experience, advanced coursework availability, and school climate cannot be answered from what is here.
We looked for a locale brief describing the town or community where the school is located, but none was available. The city field is blank in the directory data, so even a basic geographic placement is missing. Similarly, no housing values or rent information was provided, so this account cannot speak to the cost of living or residential context families might face. No neighbor comparison fact-set was included, so the school cannot be positioned against nearby districts.
The district brief search turned up little of lasting impact regarding recent parent-relevant changes. No strategic priorities, leadership transitions, or program changes were identified from public sources, so those are left out rather than guessed.
What the available data does say is this: Aldo Leopold Charter is a small secondary school with a solid English language arts program and notably strong science results, alongside a mathematics proficiency level that lags well behind. Families considering this school should ask the school directly about math support, graduation rates, course offerings for the upper grades, and the economic and linguistic makeup of the student body, since none of that is captured in the records reviewed here.
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