The top reported proficiency rate is 69% in English language arts. The lowest is 50% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Holloman Elementary
Holloman Elementary sits on Holloman Air Force Base in southern New Mexico's Tularosa Basin, between the Sacramento and San Andreas mountain ranges. It is one of two Alamogordo Public Schools located on the base, the other being Holloman Middle. The public high school, Alamogordo High, sits off-base in the city of Alamogordo roughly ten miles east, so families with older children will see a transition to civilian-community schooling once their kids age out of this building. Holloman AFB is an active Air Force installation, home to the 49th Wing, which trains F-16 and MQ-9 Reaper aircrews, and it hosts more than thirty tenant units including the 54th Fighter Group and the 704th Test Group. The base is the dominant employer in this area by a wide margin. There is no civilian downtown or residential real estate market on the installation itself, and the surrounding economy and housing picture revolve around military life rather than a conventional town. For families assigned here, the school is a neighborhood elementary in the most literal sense, serving the children of active-duty personnel, retirees, and DoD civilians who live on or near the base.
The school serves pre-kindergarten through fifth grade and has an enrollment in the mid-five-hundreds, making it a reasonably sized elementary for its grade band. The student body reflects the mobility and diversity typical of a military-connected population. White students make up the largest single group, followed by a substantial Hispanic population and smaller shares of Black students, students of two or more races, and a handful of Asian, American Indian or Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander students. The share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch is low, which is consistent with the stable military income structure on the base rather than with broader civilian patterns. The school does not have reported data on English learners or students with individualized education programs, so parents whose children fall into either category may want to ask the school directly about services and supports.
On the most recent New Mexico state assessments, Holloman Elementary posted results that are a genuine bright spot in reading and science and more mixed in mathematics. In English language arts, a strong majority of tested students reached proficiency, well above what most New Mexico elementary schools achieve. Science performance was similarly strong, with roughly two-thirds of tested students proficient. Mathematics was the softer area, with about half of tested students meeting the proficiency bar. A parent looking at these numbers would see a school where literacy instruction appears to be working especially well and where math results, while not weak in absolute terms, trail the school's own reading and science performance. Because only one year of assessment data is available, there is no trend to read, so these results represent a single snapshot rather than a track record.
Several things a parent might want are simply absent from the available data. There is no information on staffing ratios, course offerings, discipline, attendance, or Title I status. No programs data was provided, so whether the school offers gifted services, after-school enrichment, counseling, or specialized interventions is not something this record can confirm. The Alamogordo district brief, which covers Alamogordo, High Rolls, Holloman AFB, and La Luz, did not surface any parent-relevant recent changes, so there is little to report on district-level shifts that might affect this school in the near term.
What the picture does support is this. Holloman Elementary is a public elementary school operating inside a military installation, serving a population that turns over with each change of station. Its academic results in reading and science are strong, its math results are solid but a step behind, and its student body is diverse in a way that mirrors the modern military rather than any single civilian community. For a family with orders to Holloman and elementary-aged children, this is a school with demonstrated academic strengths and a peer environment shaped by shared military life. The gaps in the data, particularly around special populations and program offerings, are worth filling with a direct conversation with the school before enrollment decisions are finalized.
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