The top reported proficiency rate is 48% in English language arts. The lowest is 24% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Tres Volcanes Community Collaborative School
Tres Volcanes Community Collaborative School sits in Albuquerque's northwest quadrant, serving kindergarten through eighth grade as a regular public school within Albuquerque Public Schools. The campus on Tierra Pintada NW is one piece of a large, sprawling district that spreads schools across all four quadrants of New Mexico's largest city. The surrounding zip code carries home values near the national benchmark and somewhat above the state benchmark, with rents that look moderate relative to local incomes. Buying costs more than renting here, with the estimated monthly mortgage running above typical rent by a meaningful margin at current rates.
Albuquerque itself shapes the context. The city is car-oriented and expansive, organized into quadrants by Central Avenue and the railroad tracks. The northwest side, where Tres Volcanes sits, blends residential neighborhoods with the West Mesa and Petroglyph National Monument nearby. The Rio Grande bosque runs north-south through the metro, and the Sandia Mountains rise to the east. Major employers include Sandia National Laboratories, Kirtland Air Force Base, the University of New Mexico, and a growing film and media sector anchored in part by a Netflix production hub. The city's population has been roughly flat to slightly declining in recent years, with development historically sprawling outward across the Northeast Heights, West Side, and Southeast Mesa.
The school's enrollment is substantial for a K-through-8 campus, with the largest concentrations in the middle grades. Its student body is predominantly Hispanic, with a meaningful American Indian and Alaska Native presence and smaller groups identifying as white, Black, Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and two or more races. The free-or-reduced-price lunch count runs above total enrollment, which typically indicates community eligibility or direct certification rather than an error. Nearly every student in this building comes from an economically disadvantaged household. The school does not report individualized education program counts or English learner figures, so those gaps stand as missing rather than interpretable.
On the most recent state assessments, Tres Volcanes shows a clear split between subjects. English language arts proficiency is the school's strongest area, with nearly half of tested students in grades three through eight scoring proficient or above. That is a solid result for a school serving this population and suggests literacy instruction is producing real outcomes. Science sits in the middle range, with about a third of tested students reaching proficiency. Math is the soft spot, with roughly a quarter of students proficient or above. A parent weighing this school may want to ask how math instruction is structured and what intervention supports are available, particularly in the upper elementary and middle grades where the tested population is largest. Only one year of assessment data is available, so there is no trend to read yet. The school is too new in this dataset or the prior years were not reported, which means a parent looking for improvement or decline over time will not find it here.
Because Tres Volcanes stops at eighth grade, there is no graduation rate to report. That is expected for a K-through-8 school and does not reflect on the school's performance. The same applies to AP, dual-credit, and career pathway offerings, which are high-school measures and do not apply here. We looked for program listings, course access data, discipline data, staffing figures, and attendance rates. None were available in the data provided, so those pieces of the picture are missing rather than negative. A parent would do well to ask the school directly about teacher experience, specialist availability, arts and music programming, and how the middle grades transition into high school.
We also looked for recent district-level changes in Albuquerque Public Schools that might affect families, such as curriculum shifts, policy moves, or facility investments. The search returned nothing specific, so rather than guess, we note that gap and move on. The district is one of the larger public school systems in the country, operating schools across a city that combines dense historic cores, university-adjacent neighborhoods, and wide suburban arterials. Tres Volcanes sits in the quieter residential west side, away from the downtown and university corridors but within reach of the bosque and the volcanic escarpment that gives the area its character.
For a family considering this school, the academic signal is mixed but readable. Strong literacy results, middling science, and weak math define the current snapshot. The student community is economically disadvantaged and culturally rich, with a strong Hispanic majority and a notable Native American contingent. The setting is a growing-edge neighborhood in a flat-population city, with housing that is attainable by national standards but where ownership costs sit above renting. Whether this school fits a given family depends heavily on what the upper grades look like in person and whether the school is building on its literacy foundation to address math.
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