Middle · New Mexico
Caton Middle
Free meals for allCaton Middle, a public middle school in Eunice, New Mexico: grades 6–8, 170 students, 14.8 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Eunice.
Size and class size
Compared with middle schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 170
- Teachers (FTE)
- 11.5
- Students per teacher
- 14.8
- Grades
- 6–8
- Middle
More students per teacher than 76% of middle schools in New Mexico
Median 12.5 · 156 schools compared
More students per teacher than 52% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Smaller than 66% of middle schools in New Mexico
Median 306 · 158 schools compared
Smaller than 88% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on New Mexico's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
New Mexico: 44%43%proficient
+15.6 points from 2023–24 school year
A higher share proficient than 58% of middle schools in New Mexico
Median 41% · 159 middle schools compared
168 students tested, grades 3–8 · NM-MSSA; proficient means Levels 3-4
Math
New Mexico: 27%15%proficient
+0.7 points from 2023–24 school year
A lower share proficient than 58% of middle schools in New Mexico
Median 19% · 154 middle schools compared
168 students tested, grades 3–8 · NM-MSSA; proficient means Levels 3-4
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 6–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Remote rural area
- Run by
- Eunice
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Eunice.
Location
- Address
- 1109 16TH Street, Eunice, NM 88231
- Phone
- (575)394-3338
- City or town
- Eunice
- County
- Lea County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher | Reading | Math |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Heizer Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 606 | 14.0 | 29% | 13% |
Houston Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–9 | 822 | 18.6 | 47% | 26% |
Highland Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 808 | 17.8 | 43% | 17% |
Jal Jr HighFree meals for all | 6–8 | 119 | 11.0 | 47% | 19% |
Reading and Math: share of tested students proficient or above on the state's own tests (grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year). Compare only within a state.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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