The top reported proficiency rate is 64% in English language arts. The lowest is 47% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Corrales Elementary
Corrales Elementary sits in the village of Corrales, a rural pocket within the Albuquerque metropolitan area. The village maintains a farming identity with working orchards, vineyards, and livestock despite being bordered by Albuquerque and Rio Rancho. Corrales Road runs as the main spine through the village, lined with galleries, restaurants, and small shops, while the Rio Grande Bosque on the eastern edge offers recreational trails. Civic life centers on an informal village corridor rather than a dense downtown, with the Old Church, Casa San Ysidro museum, and the Corrales Community Library serving as cultural anchors. The village actively resists dense development, partly because it lacks centralized water and sewer systems, so growth has slowed in recent years. Many residents likely commute to Albuquerque or Rio Rancho for work.
The school is a regular public elementary serving kindergarten through sixth grade, part of Albuquerque Public Schools. Its enrollment is moderate for its grade band. The student body is majority Hispanic, with a substantial White population and small shares of American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Black, multiracial, and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander students. A sizable minority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, though the rate sits below what many urban Albuquerque schools see. The village's housing market is expensive relative to the state and nation, with typical home values running well above both state and national benchmarks. That affordability gap shapes who lives here and who attends the school.
On state assessments, Corrales Elementary posts a solid profile. English language arts proficiency is a clear strength, with a strong majority of tested students scoring proficient or above. Science proficiency lands at about half of tested students, a middling result. Math is the soft spot, with fewer than half of tested students reaching proficiency. A parent may want to look into how the school supports math instruction and whether additional interventions are available. We found only a single year of assessment data, so no trend is available to show whether these results are improving, holding, or declining over time.
Several data gaps are worth naming. The school's Title I status was not reported. Information on students with individualized education programs and English learners was missing. No discipline, course access, staffing, or attendance data was available. No program offerings were listed. No neighbor comparison was provided to position the school against nearby campuses. We searched for recent parent-relevant changes in Albuquerque Public Schools policy, curriculum, or funding but found nothing specific, so we left that out rather than guess.
What the available picture shows is an elementary school in a distinctive community setting. Corrales offers something uncommon in the Albuquerque metro: a village with rural character, agricultural land, acequia irrigation ditches, and a tight civic corridor along a single main road. Families drawn to that environment and able to manage the housing costs will find a school with solid literacy results, reasonable science outcomes, and a math area that deserves a closer conversation with school staff. The student body reflects the village's own demographic mix, leaning Hispanic and White with smaller representation from other groups. For a family weighing fit, the combination of a small-village setting within a large urban district is the defining feature here.
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