Table of contents
•	Title page
•	Introduction
•	Acknowledgments
•	National Summary
	State Profiles
	-	Alabama
	-	Alaska
	-	Arizona
	-	Arkansas
	-	California
	-	Colorado
	-	Connecticut
	-	Delaware
	-	District of Columbia
	-	Florida
	-	Georgia
	-	Hawaii
	-	Idaho
	-	Illinois
	-	Indiana
	-	Iowa
	-	Kansas
	-	Kentucky
	-	Louisiana
	-	Maine
	-	Maryland
	-	Massachusetts
	-	Michigan
	-	Minnesota
	-	Mississippi
	-	Missouri
	-	Montana
	-	Nebraska
	-	Nevada
	-	New Hampshire
	-	New Jersey
	-	New Mexico
	-	New York
	-	North Carolina
	-	North Dakota
	-	Ohio
	-	Oklahoma
	-	Oregon
	-	Pennsylvania
	-	Puerto Rico
	-	Rhode Island
	-	South Carolina
	-	South Dakota
	-	Tennessee
	-	Texas
	-	Utah
	-	Vermont
	-	Virginia
	-	Washington
	-	West Virginia
	-	Wisconsin
	-	Wyoming
•	Sources
•	Appendix A
•	Appendix B
•	Appendix C
•	Full report in PDF format (956K)

State Education Indicators With a Focus on Title I

A r c h i v e d I n f o r m a t i o n

New Mexico
http://sde.state.nm.us/

School and Teacher Demographics
Student Demographics
Statewide Accountability Information
Title I Schools
Assessment Information
Student Achievement 1998-1999
NAEP State Results
Printable version of this profile (PDF format)

School and Teacher Demographics

Number of districts
(CCD, 1998-99)

Number of public schools in state
(CCD, 1998-99)
Elementary	Middle	High	Combined	Other
432	156	139	10	8

Student/teacher ratio
(CCD, 1998-99)
Elementary	Middle	High
16:1	16:1	18:1

Number of FTE teachers in state
(CCD, 1998-99)
Elementary	Middle	High	Combined	Other
9,789	4,741	4,989	72	406

Public school enrollment
	1989-90	1998-99
K-8 (CCD)	203,157	229,553
9-12 (CCD)	92,900	96,268
Pre-K (by state definition)	n/a	2,932

Sources of funding
District average
(CCD, 1996-97)

State 72.2%, Local 14.6%, Federal 13.2%

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Student Demographics

Race/ethnicity
(CCD, K-12)
	1989-90	1998-99
American Indian/Alaskan Natives	9.8%	10.8%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0.9	1.0
Black	2.2	2.3
Hispanic	44.7	48.8
White	42.5	37.2

Students with disabilities
(OSEP, K-12)
1990-91	1998-99
11.0%	13.3%

Limited English proficient
(USED/NCBE, K-12)
1989-90	1996-97
58,752	78,107

Migrant
(OME, K-12)
1993-94	1998-99
3,842	3,230

High school dropout rate
(CCD, event)
1993-94	1997-98
8.5%	7.1%

Postsecondary enrollment
(IPEDS, High school grads enrolled in college)
1994-95	1997-98
54%	58%

All schools by percent of students eligible to participate in the Free Lunch Program
(CCD, 1998-99)

Data not available

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Statewide Accountability Information

Statewide Goal for Schools on State Assessment
Acceptable level => 40 percent of students passing scores on CRT, one SE above predicted score (NRT)

Expected School Improvement on Assessment
Improve scores on each assessment

Indicators for School Accountability
NRT, CRT scores (CTBS), Dropout, attendance, subgroup scores: LEP, poverty, disability

Title I Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for Schools
Increase proficient level by 5%, > 40th percentile on NRT

Schools Meeting Title I AYP Goal
301 (66.9%)

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Title I Schools

Title I enrollment
(USED)
	1998-99
K-8	95,668
9-12	7,268
Pre-K	n/a

Race/ethnicity
(USED, K-12)
	Schoolwide	Targeted Assistance
American Indian/Alaskan Natives	15,152	4,266
Asian/Pacific Islander	355	119
Black	1,502	678
Hispanic	48,233	13,494
White	15,569	4,452

Title I allocation
(Includes Basic, Concentration, and LEA grants, Capital Expenditures, Even Start, Migrant Education, and Neglected & Delinquent, USED, 1998-99)

$64,714,831

Number of schools with Title I programs
Schoolwide vs. targeted assistance (USED)

In 1996, 70 schools with schoolwide programs and 398 schools with targeted assistance; in 1998, 147 schoolwide, 293 targeted assistance; in 1999, 192 schoolwide, 258 targeted assistance

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Assessment Information

Assessment Reported
New Mexico Achievement Assessment, used since 1997-1998.

Progress Toward Assessment Aligned with Standards
Performance standards did not meet review criteria of the U.S. Department of Education.

State Definition of "Proficient"
Scoring as "Competent Readers" and between a 40 and 59 on Math Problem solving subset

Exclusion from Assessment
No information given

Other Assessments
CTBS 5

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Student Achievement 1998-1999

Percentage of students meeting state proficiency levels

Grade 4

Reading/Language Arts
		Beginning Step	Nearing Proficiency	Proficient	Advanced
All Students		10%	34%	34%	23%
Title I Schoolwide
Title I Targeted
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students
Migrant students

Mathematics
		Beginning Step	Nearing Proficiency	Proficient	Advanced
All Students		19%	48%	20%	12%
Title I Schoolwide
Title I Targeted
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students
Migrant students

Grade 8

Reading/Language Arts
		Beginning Step	Nearing Proficiency	Proficient	Advanced
All Students		22%	42%	26%	10%
Title I Schoolwide
Title I Targeted
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students
Migrant students

Mathematics
		Beginning Step	Nearing Proficiency	Proficient	Advanced
All Students		50%	27%	18%	6%
Title I Schoolwide
Title I Targeted
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students
Migrant students

Grade

Reading
	Beginning Step	Nearing Proficiency	Proficient	Advanced
All Students
Title I Schoolwide
Title I Targeted

Mathematics
	Beginning Step	Nearing Proficiency	Proficient	Advanced
All Students
Title I Schoolwide
Title I Targeted

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NAEP State Results
	Grade 4	Grade 8
Reading, 1998:
Proficient level and above	22%	24%
Basic level and above	52%	70%
Math, 2000:
Proficient level and above	12%	13%
Basic level and above	51%	49%