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We are considering moving to the Abuquerque area. I have 2 kids one in high school and one in middle school. I wanted to know which schools are really the best. I have done tons of research and would like to hear from people who know first hand. Private school is not something I want to do, but I will consider it if it is the best option. We would just tighten our belts.
Just use a website like zillow / trulia etc. to scout out homes or areas you like. When you find one you like click on schools and you can see the schools assigned to the home/area and what the school rankings are. The rankings has first hand reviews/ratings from students and parents.
I've found the best schools to be in the NE heights and the NW area but there are good one's scattered throughout, just as there are bad ones scattered throughout.
Thanks for the link for charter schools, I will look at them. We are coming from DoDEA schools overseas, we have been overseas for quite a while. My kids are used to small classes (a graduating class might be 40 kids). There are usually 200 or less kids in the school 9-12 - everyone knows everyone and everyone is friends. Everyone also makes the team, it is so small usually they are begging kids to play sports to have enough for a team. I am just afraid to just drop them in any old school when we get back, and I really can't afford to make a mistake with schools with my high school student. He does not have time for a slump, due to the change. They are not used to bullying, drugs, gangs, or any of the horrible things I went to school with. So I want to pick a more tame school to drop them in, the smaller the better. (which is why I would consider private). We are coming back to the states soon, and right now ABQ is on the list and one of the places we were going to put on our dream sheet.
We are considering moving to the Abuquerque area. I have 2 kids one in high school and one in middle school. I wanted to know which schools are really the best. I have done tons of research and would like to hear from people who know first hand.
First hand? I have grandchildren who have attended K through 12th grade in Rio Rancho.
That is a great list, thanks! I do not know if my husband would like the commute to the base from Rio Rancho (the website suggested it would take about 45-50 minutes). I think he would like to be closer to the base.
That is a great list, thanks! I do not know if my husband would like the commute to the base from Rio Rancho (the website suggested it would take about 45-50 minutes). I think he would like to be closer to the base.
You never mentioned "base"... But my wife drove to Kirtland Air Force Base from Rio Rancho for over 10 years (It beat her commute to the Washington D.C. area), and have had others who worked on base from RR in the past...
Best high school: LaCueva High
Best middle schools: Dennis Chavez, Double Eagle - both feed into LaCueva although I would check the boundaries to make sure.
You would have to live in the far NE corner of the city and housing is expensive. You might be able to find some apartments in the area. For the best private schools, you have to test in and it is very competitive and takes time. My next door neighborhood moved here from New England and their son went to a public high school for a year and then tested into Sandia Prep High School - pricey.
Too late to delete my post and it has errors. The middle schools that feed into La Cueva are Desert Ridge and Eisenhower. The ones I listed were elementary schools. Also reading your posts more thoroughly, you might be interested in smaller charter schools as another poster recommended.
Just another thought if my husband gets this job. We may be required to live on the base. I am fine with living on a base, but how are those schools? The report from great schools is not the best report for either one, but some of the posts were from a few years ago. I want to say one of the posts was from someone that went to this high school in 1967 and said it was wonderful back then, but I want to know what it is like today. Highland is the high school, and Van buren is the middle school. (from the information I saw on the internet those are the schools that the base kids go to).
How rough are these schools?
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