The top reported proficiency rate is 28% in English language arts. The lowest is 8% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Truman Middle
Truman Middle sitson the southwest side of Albuquerque, serving grades six through eight as part of Albuquerque Public Schools. It is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet, and its enrollment is modest for a middle school in a district of this size. The student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic, and nearly every student qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which places this campus firmly in a high-poverty context within the city.
The academic results from the most recent state assessments are low across all three tested subjects. English language arts shows the strongest result, with roughly a quarter of tested students reaching proficiency. Math proficiency is quite low, and science falls in between but still well below what most families would hope to see. Only a single year of data was available, so there is no trend to describe, and we did not attempt to guess whether these numbers represent improvement, decline, or stability. A parent considering this school may want to look into how the campus supports students performing below grade level and what interventions or tutoring are in place, especially in math.
Several pieces of information that would help round out the picture were missing from the available data. Special population figures, including individualized education program counts and English learner rates, were not reported. Title I status was not available, though given the universal free-or-reduced-price-lunch population, the school almost certainly receives Title I support. Discipline data, course access details, staffing ratios, and attendance rates were also absent from the payload. We looked for program offerings such as dual-language, advanced coursework, or electives and found none listed, so we left that gap rather than fill it. The same was true for any neighbor comparison set that would position Truman against nearby middle schools.
Because Truman serves only middle grades, it has no graduation rate, no ACT or SAT results, and no college-readiness metrics. Those measures simply do not apply to this grade band.
The surrounding area is part of Albuquerque's southwest quadrant, a car-oriented stretch of the city where residential neighborhoods mix with commercial corridors along wide arterial roads. Housing in the school's zip code sits below both the state and national benchmarks for typical home values, which makes ownership relatively accessible compared with much of the metro. Rents are also moderate, and the gap between a typical monthly mortgage payment and rent is meaningful, with renting coming in cheaper. The broader city context is relevant here. Albuquerque is New Mexico's largest city and a hub for government installations, including Sandia National Laboratories and Kirtland Air Force Base, along with the University of New Mexico and a growing film and media sector tied to a Netflix production hub. The Rio Grande bosque runs through the center of the city, and Petroglyph National Monument sits on the West Mesa. Publicly reported figures describe the city's population as roughly flat to slightly declining in recent years, with growth historically sprawling outward across the Northeast Heights, West Side, and Southeast Mesa.
We searched for recent district-level changes at Albuquerque Public Schools, including policy shifts, curriculum updates, budget actions, or facility decisions that might affect this campus, and found nothing substantive in the available results, so we left that out rather than speculate.
For a family weighing Truman Middle, the honest read is that this is a high-poverty, predominantly Hispanic middle school in an affordable part of southwest Albuquerque where state test results are currently weak, especially in math. The data does not tell us about school climate, teacher experience, electives, or extracurricular life, and those are exactly the things a parent would want to ask about directly. The academic numbers alone do not define a school, but they are the clearest signal in this payload, and they point to a campus where families should dig into what support structures exist before making a decision.
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