Elementary · New Mexico

La Merced Elementary

Free meals for all

La Merced Elementary, a public elementary school in Belen, New Mexico: grades pre-k–6, 463 students, 15.7 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Belen.

Size and class size

Compared with elementary 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: 463
Teachers (FTE): 29.5
Students per teacher: 15.7
Grades: Pre-K–6; Elementary

More students per teacher than 86% of elementary schools in New Mexico

Median 12.4 · 429 schools compared

More students per teacher than 62% of elementary schools in the US

Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared

Larger than 85% of elementary schools in New Mexico

Median 306 · 445 schools compared

Larger than 60% of elementary schools in the US

Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared

What it offers

Grades: Elementary · Grades Pre-K–6
Type: District school · Regular
Instruction: In person
Meals: Free breakfast and lunch for every student
Area: Rural area near a city
Run by: Belen

Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Belen.

Location

Address: 301 Alame Loop, Belen, NM 87002
Phone: (505)966-2100
City or town: Rio Communities
County: Valencia County

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Nearby elementary schools

The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.

School	Grades	Students	Students / teacher
Belen Family SchoolAlternativeFree meals for all	1–8	154	29.1	1.8 mi
Rio Grande ElementaryFree meals for all	Pre-K–6	332	11.6	1.9 mi
Gil Sanchez ElementaryFree meals for all	Pre-K–6	316	14.4	4.3 mi
Dennis Chavez ElementaryFree meals for all	Pre-K–6	294	13.4	4.8 mi
Tome ElementaryFree meals for all	Pre-K–6	340	14.8	5.2 mi
Desert View ElementaryFree meals for all	Pre-K–6	393	16.4	6.1 mi

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).

Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level.

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