Schools · Paradise Hills

Paradise Hills, NM schools

Paradise Hills’s public schools score well above New Mexico’s averages: 75% of students are proficient in reading against 58.4% statewide, and 75% of high schoolers graduate on time against 77.2%. Kids attend Sierra Vista Elementary through grade 5, then one of 33 schools and one of 16 high schools.

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

TownTapestry School GradeNew

Paradise Hills’s School Grade: A

The public schools Paradise Hills’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 90% of New Mexico’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.

ATest scoresC+Graduation
New Mexico school districts we grade (93)Better than 90%
Lower resultsHigher results
New Mexico towns with similar household incomes (123)Better than 92%
High confidence. Built on 1,728 tested students and a graduating class of 7,121; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
  • Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on New Mexico’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
  • The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
  • Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of New Mexico only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
  • Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in New Mexico with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
  • What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path

Where Paradise Hills kids go to school

Grades PK–5
D-Sierra Vista Elementary 402 students · Albuquerque Albuquerque Public Schools
Grades 6–12
33 schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Albuquerque Public Schools
Grades 12
16 high schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Albuquerque Public Schools

Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.

Test scores · 2020–21

Well above the state in reading

Reading (grades PK–12, Albuquerque)75%
State average 58.4%
Math (grades PK–12, Albuquerque)51%
State average 23.4%
Graduation · class of 2020

75% graduate on time

Graduation rate
75%
NM: 77.2%
Graduating class
7,121
students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #48 of 70 NM towns →

Districts

The district serving Paradise Hills

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

Within reach

Colleges near Paradise Hills

There’s no college in Paradise Hills, but 6 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute in Albuquerque, 2.6 miles away.

Straight-line distance from the center of Paradise Hills. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.

Every school

All 2 schools in Paradise Hills

Showing 1–2 of 2 schools

School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.

Also serving Paradise Hills

Schools Paradise Hills kids attend in other towns

Public schools in Paradise Hills’s district that are located in Albuquerque. Which one depends on your address.

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