The top reported proficiency rate is 35% in Science. The lowest is 21% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Cameo Elementary
Cameo Elementary sits on Cameo Street in Clovis, the county seat of Curry County on the eastern New Mexico high plains. It is a regular public school serving prekindergarten through fifth grade as part of Clovis Municipal Schools. The school draws from a community shaped by several forces that do not usually coexist in one place. Cannon Air Force Base, home of the 27th Special Operations Wing, sits just west of town and shapes both the local economy and the mix of families who cycle through the school system. BNSF Railway runs a major freight classification yard here, and the Southwest Cheese Company between Clovis and Portales is among the largest cheddar producers on the continent. Peanut and cotton farming and cattle ranching surround the city. The cost of living runs well below the national average, and housing in the school's zip code is quite affordable relative to both state and national benchmarks, with rents and home prices sitting a good distance below what most New Mexico communities see.
The school's enrollment is modest for an elementary serving a full pre-K-through-five band. Its student body is predominantly Hispanic, with smaller groups of white, Black, multiracial, American Indian or Alaska Native, and Asian students. Virtually every student qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which places Cameo among schools serving an entirely economically disadvantaged population. The data we received does not include individualized education program rates or English learner counts, so we cannot characterize those populations here. A parent wanting to understand special education or language support services would want to ask the school directly.
On state assessments from the most recent reported year, Cameo's results are low. In math, fewer than a quarter of tested students reached proficiency or above. English language arts was stronger, with roughly a third of students scoring proficient, though still below half. Science, which is tested only at a single elementary grade, landed at about a third proficient. These are plainly soft results, and a parent may want to look into this further with the school, particularly what intervention supports and tiered instruction are in place. No multi-year trend data was available, so we cannot say whether these numbers are improving, holding steady, or slipping. Participation rate data was also missing. Average scale scores were not reported.
The broader district context offers one promising thread. Clovis Municipal Schools is in the middle of a multi-site construction and renovation program funded by a voter-approved bond issue, with work happening across school campuses. This is a substantial capital investment that could改善 facilities over time, though the specific scope at Cameo is not detailed in the materials we reviewed.
Clovis itself is an auto-oriented micropolitan city spread across flat, wind-swept high plains. U.S. Routes 60, 70, and 84 cut through town as major arterials. No public transit system was identified in the research, so getting to and from school is effectively a car-dependent matter for most families. The city has multiple parks with artificial ponds, a downtown corridor anchored by the Art Deco Hotel Clovis currently being renovated into affordable housing, and a music-heritage site in Norman Petty Studios, where Buddy Holly and others recorded. A long-term water supply project, the Ute Reservoir pipeline begun in 2023, aims to secure potable water for Cannon Air Force Base and several surrounding communities by 2030. The city's population has been slightly declining rather than growing.
What Cameo offers is a small, community-rooted elementary serving a nearly entirely low-income, majority-Hispanic student body in an affordable high-plains town with a strong military and agricultural identity. Its academic results are currently weak across all three tested subjects, and the absence of trend, staffing, discipline, attendance, and program data means the picture here is incomplete. Families considering this school should go in asking direct questions about academic supports, classroom resources, and how the district's bond-funded renovations will affect this campus.
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