📍 1202 West Birch Ave, Lovington, Lea County, 88260
Lea Elementary is a State/Public serving elementary age pupils, located in Lovington, Lea County. The school has 220 pupils enrolled. It is part of the Lovington Municipal Schools school district. It serves grades 1 in a small-town setting. The school employs 15.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, a student-teacher ratio of 14.4:1. Technology infrastructure includes fiber internet, campus-wide Wi-Fi.
Lea Elementary enrolls 220 students across grades 1. The student body is 50% male and 50% female. A teaching staff of 15.3 full-time-equivalent teachers supports the school, giving a student-teacher ratio of 14.4:1.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 80% Hispanic or Latino, 17% White and 1.8% American Indian or Alaska Native.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Hispanic or Latino | 175 | 80% |
| White | 38 | 17% |
| American Indian or Alaska Native | 4 | 1.8% |
| Black or African American | 2 | <1% |
| Asian | 1 | <1% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
217 of the school's 220 students (99%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Of these, 217 qualify for free lunch and 0 for a reduced price. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility is a widely used indicator of the share of students from lower-income households.
Lea Elementary is located in a small-town setting (NCES locale: Town, Remote). The school runs a schoolwide Title I program, which provides federal funding to support students from low-income families. For civic and policy purposes, the school sits in congressional district NM-30, state senate district 42, state house district 66.
Lea Elementary is one of 10 schools in LOVINGTON, based in LOVINGTON, New Mexico. The district serves 3,415 students district-wide and employs 203 full-time-equivalent teachers. With 220 students, Lea Elementary is smaller than the district average of about 342 students per school.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Proficiency based on state assessments.
Setting: Town - Remote