Cleveland High School

Summary:

Cleveland High School is a public high school located in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, serving grades 9-12 with a total enrollment of 2,631 students. The school is part of the Rio Rancho School District, which is ranked 30th out of 119 districts in the state and has a 4-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Cleveland High School consistently ranks among the top 30-50 high schools in New Mexico, with a 4-star rating from SchoolDigger. The school's proficiency rates in state assessments are significantly higher than the state and district averages, indicating strong academic achievement. For example, in the 2023-2024 school year, 68% of Cleveland High School students were proficient or better in NM-ASR/Science, compared to 55% in the Rio Rancho district and 36% statewide. Additionally, the school has maintained a relatively high four-year graduation rate, ranging from 76% to 87.9% over the past few years, which is on par with or slightly higher than the district and state averages.

Within the Rio Rancho School District, Cleveland High School outperforms its peers, Rio Rancho High and Independence High, in academic measures such as proficiency rates and state rankings. However, the nearby Rio Rancho Cyber Academy, a public virtual school, has consistently outperformed Cleveland High School in several academic areas, ranking among the top 10-30 high schools in the state.


Detail:

Public 9-12

 4800 Cleveland Heights Rd NE
       Rio Rancho, NM  87144


(505) 938-0300

District: Rio Rancho

SchoolDigger Rank:
26th of 190 New Mexico High Schools

Per Pupil Expenditures:  $7,561 Help


Feeder schools for Cleveland High School:

Elementary:    Cielo Azul Elementary
    Colinas Del Norte Elementary
    Enchanted Hills Elementary
    Sandia Vista Elementary
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Middle:    Mountain View Middle
    Rio Rancho Middle School

Student/teacher ratio:  18.2 Help
Number of students:  2,631

Racial breakdown:

Hispanic:
58.5%
White:
26.7%
American Indian:
5.7%
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Free/discounted lunch recipients:  17.9% Help


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Compare Details Cleveland High School ranks better than 86.3% of high schools in New Mexico. It also ranks 2nd among 4 ranked high schools in the Rio Rancho School District. (See more...)
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Compare Details In 2024 the calculated Average Standard Score was 83.33. (See more...)
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The four-year cohort graduation rate measures the percentage of students at Cleveland High School who earn a standard high school diploma within four years of starting ninth grade.
Student Body
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Compare Details Cleveland High School has the largest high school student body size in the Rio Rancho School District. Racial makeup is: Hispanic (58.5%), White (26.7%), American Indian (5.7%). (See more...)
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Compare Details 17.9% of students are receiving a free or discounted lunch. (See more...)
Teachers
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Compare Details The student/teacher ratio at Cleveland High School is 18.2. 2 high schools in the Rio Rancho School District have better student/teacher ratios. (See more...)
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Compare Cleveland High School employs 144.4 full-time teachers.
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Compare Details The average total spent per student at Cleveland High School is $7,561, which is the lowest among 4 high schools in the Rio Rancho School District!
Schooldigger 2024 Rankings:

Cleveland High School:

SchoolDigger ranks Cleveland High School 26th of 190 New Mexico public high schools. (See Cleveland High School in the ranking list.)

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Rio Rancho:

SchoolDigger ranks Rio Rancho 30th of 119 New Mexico school districts. (See district ranking list.)

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Rank History for Cleveland High School

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Rank History for all students at Cleveland High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools NM State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2010 90.35 15th 154 90.3%
2011 87.57 18th 157 88.5%
2012 96.28 6th 163 96.3%
2013 92.77 10th 177 94.4%
2014 91.09 12th 198 93.9%
2015 74.23 29th 193 85.0%
2016 75.52 25th 185 86.5%
2017 69.74 35th 158 77.8%
2018 64.08 46th 182 74.7%
2019 64.39 48th 181 73.5%
2022 76.48 33rd 177 81.4%
2023 77.68 36th 170 78.8%
2024 83.33 26th 190 86.3%
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Rank History for Multi-racial students at Cleveland High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools NM State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2022 61.34 10th 31 67.7%
2023 75.84 6th 23 73.9%
2024 66.97 6th 21 71.4%
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Rank History for Special Education students at Cleveland High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools NM State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2019 39.92 35th 62 43.5%
2022 27.99 39th 58 32.8%
2023 48.59 17th 38 55.3%
2024 49.80 14th 30 53.3%
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Rank History for Low Socio Economic Status students at Cleveland High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools NM State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 60.39 46th 164 72.0%
2019 50.73 63rd 161 60.9%
2022 67.84 28th 154 81.8%
2023 68.13 30th 157 80.9%
2024 86.86 16th 154 89.6%
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Rank History for Female students at Cleveland High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools NM State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 62.60 48th 145 66.9%
2019 64.17 44th 144 69.4%
2022 74.23 34th 157 78.3%
2023 73.13 33rd 143 76.9%
2024 75.03 33rd 153 78.4%
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Rank History for Disabled students at Cleveland High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools NM State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 53.35 19th 51 62.7%
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Rank History for Military Connected students at Cleveland High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools NM State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2019 38.95 3rd 5 40.0%
2022 49.42 14th 24 41.7%
2024 60.29 3rd 6 50.0%
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Rank History for Male students at Cleveland High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools NM State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 62.16 39th 143 72.7%
2019 63.65 39th 151 74.2%
2022 73.86 37th 159 76.7%
2023 77.48 32nd 146 78.1%
2024 75.81 26th 159 83.6%
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Rank History for Asian students at Cleveland High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools NM State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 49.48 8th 14 42.9%
2019 52.78 6th 14 57.1%
2022 83.36 4th 31 87.1%
2023 76.24 5th 14 64.3%
2024 36.21 10th 16 37.5%
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Rank History for African American students at Cleveland High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools NM State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 54.60 4th 15 73.3%
2019 54.46 6th 21 71.4%
2022 84.39 1st 24 95.8%
2023 50.40 11th 18 38.9%
2024 77.22 6th 21 71.4%
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Rank History for Hispanic students at Cleveland High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools NM State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 64.16 38th 133 71.4%
2019 67.40 39th 139 71.9%
2022 69.80 37th 150 75.3%
2023 71.65 28th 132 78.8%
2024 77.82 21st 142 85.2%
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Rank History for Native American students at Cleveland High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools NM State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 61.14 14th 47 70.2%
2019 62.34 12th 47 74.5%
2022 62.80 15th 44 65.9%
2023 76.06 9th 42 78.6%
2024 62.86 13th 43 69.8%
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Rank History for White students at Cleveland High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools NM State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 55.17 55th 115 52.2%
2019 55.68 41st 109 62.4%
2022 72.35 29th 133 78.2%
2023 73.32 37th 157 76.4%
2024 79.71 25th 155 83.9%
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Data source: test scores: New Mexico Public Education Department, rankings: SchoolDigger.com

As you review the school rankings data, please be aware that some of the information from certain demographics is missing. The reason for this omission is that the data has been redacted from the source data itself due to low population samples in these specific demographic groups.

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Data source: New Mexico Public Education Department

Review counts

All ratings (Avg rating: 3)
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by a student
Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Open Quote The teachers are wonderful for the most part. Don't get me wrong. However, many tend to overlook the rest of the staff. The counsolers, for instance, are extremely poor. They lack in being both emotionally supportive as well as academically. Not to mention you can never get in to see them even if its for something incrediably urgent. If your child ever wants to go that extra mile and take the dual enrollment courses the school offers through both UNM and CNM, make sure you're not sensitive to stress. When signing up for these courses students must go through a rigorous period of dealing with the staff's incompetence. To those who do not know, to first start signing up for dual enrollment courses, you have to recieve "book forms" from the school, so they can get the necessary information they need to pay for your college textbooks. However, these forms aren't in any "easy access" place, so you must go through your counsoler. Don't expect to get this simple little slip of paper within a day or so. Most get it on the day of the deadline to sign up for dual enrollment through any of those colleges mentioned. Several signatures later, your child is finally enrolled, but the stress and disappointment doesn't end there. Most of the time the school WILL NOT give you a highschool credit for that dual enrollment course, and the only way to prove that you have been slaving yourself away for the past semester is by paying 10 dollars for a transcript because the administration failed to do their job. To add insult to injury, if you have told the counsoler you have taken that course they will, infact, not believe you and completely disregard everything you try to tell them despite having the evidence to prove it. This isn't the only case either. If your child has been unjustifiably written up by a teacher, don't expect a fair trial. The administration will again disregard everthing your child may say to clear their name. Justice and fair treatment is not this school's concern. They are the most conceited school in this district. They obsess over image. A lot of reports from this school may be extremely positive but that's just a deception. They may have high graduation percentages, but that's only because if it looks like your child will not graduate on time, the school will send them off to a much lower ranking school (Indenpendence Highschool to be exact). V. Sue Cleveland Highschool may have a pretty exterior but its interior is all vanity. The type of disrespect this staff awards students is repulsive. Close Quote


by a parent
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Open Quote best school in NM hands down. Close Quote


by a student
Friday, October 28, 2011

Open Quote If you are an athlete, a football player, you pretty much run the school. If you are in stugo(student government) you also run the school. But if are in any art/preformed art you are at the bottom, I am a member and officer of the school Thespian troupe and lets just say it's difficult. If you are going to be any form of art/performing art major and you have the choice go to Rio Rancho High School, there arts program is much better!!! Close Quote



Enrollment information for Cleveland High School

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Year White African American Asian Hispanic American Indian Pacific Islander Two or More Races Not Specified Total
2010 475 55 31 1024 39 0 0 0 1624
2011 1071 89 51 852 93 0 4 0 2160
2012 1040 95 48 929 97 0 14 0 2223
2013 1078 87 42 997 92 4 27 0 2327
2014 1021 83 31 1091 94 7 56 0 2383
2015 961 79 41 1150 94 4 65 0 2394
2016 885 75 36 1141 88 3 73 0 2301
2017 795 63 35 1284 97 2 128 0 2404
2018 776 64 36 1350 102 3 119 0 2450
2019 753 69 38 1360 114 3 124 0 2461
2020 748 79 36 1376 117 3 125 0 2484
2021 725 71 36 1476 130 2 145 0 2585
2022 712 67 29 1464 145 3 141 0 2561
2023 702 71 31 1538 149 3 137 0 2631

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Enrollment/Ethnicity

For more information about how the Department of Education defines ethnicity, see Defining Race and Ethnicity Data, National Center for Education Statistics

Students eligible for free or discounted lunch at Cleveland High School

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
2010 1624 78.7 20.6 33.9
2011 2160 115.8 18.6 34.7
2012 2223 117.1 18.9 38.6
2013 2327 119.3 19.5 28.5
2014 2383 121.8 19.5 27.9
2015 2394 117.0 20.4 28.8
2016 2301 123.0 18.7 28
2017 2404 123.0 19.5 31.2
2018 2450 121.5 20.1 31.8
2019 2461 122.9 20.0 27.6
2020 2484 132.1 18.7 28.3
2021 2585 138.2 18.6 26
2022 2561 137.1 18.6 22.5
2023 2631 144.4 18.2 17.9

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Students eligible for discounted/free lunch:

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provides low-cost or free meals to students in U.S. public and nonprofit private schools based on household income. Those with incomes below 130% of the poverty line receive free lunch, while those between 130% and 185% qualify for reduced-price lunch. The percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch serves as a marker for poverty, as it reflects the socioeconomic status of families in a given school or district. A higher FRPL rate typically indicates a higher concentration of low-income families, suggesting that the school or district may face additional challenges in providing adequate resources and support for student success.

Student/Teacher Ratio Cleveland High School

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
2010 1624 78.7 20.6 33.9
2011 2160 115.8 18.6 34.7
2012 2223 117.1 18.9 38.6
2013 2327 119.3 19.5 28.5
2014 2383 121.8 19.5 27.9
2015 2394 117.0 20.4 28.8
2016 2301 123.0 18.7 28
2017 2404 123.0 19.5 31.2
2018 2450 121.5 20.1 31.8
2019 2461 122.9 20.0 27.6
2020 2484 132.1 18.7 28.3
2021 2585 138.2 18.6 26
2022 2561 137.1 18.6 22.5
2023 2631 144.4 18.2 17.9

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Student-Teacher Ratio

Student/teacher ratio is calculated by dividing the total number of students by the total number of full-time equivalent teachers. Please note that a smaller student/teacher ratio does not necessarily translate to smaller class size. In some instances, schools hire teachers part time, and some teachers are hired for specialized instruction with very small class sizes. These and other factors contribute to the student/teacher ratio. Note: For private schools, Student/teacher ratio may not include Pre-Kindergarten.
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Per Pupil Expenditures for Cleveland High School

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YearTotal Expenditures Per Pupil
2019 $7,561

Data source: New Mexico Department of Education
Pre and Post Pandemic Data

Impact of COVID-19 on Cleveland High School

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Rankings

Rank
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Rank
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Ranks 48th of 181 High schoolsRanks 36th of 170 High schools
 5.3%

Test Scores

% proficient
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
% proficient
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
11th Grade Language Arts (Cleveland High School)5948.7
 10.3%
   11th Grade Language Arts (Rio Rancho)5546.4
 8.6%
   11th Grade Language Arts (New Mexico)4033.1
 6.9%
11th Grade Mathematics (Cleveland High School)1125.7
 14.7%
   11th Grade Mathematics (Rio Rancho)1223.7
 11.7%
   11th Grade Mathematics (New Mexico)1015.9
 5.9%
11th Grade Science (Cleveland High School)5265.4
 13.4%
   11th Grade Science (Rio Rancho)4562.9
 17.9%
   11th Grade Science (New Mexico)2540.2
 15.2%

Student Body

Number of students
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Number of students
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Total Students24612631
 6.9%
African American6971
 2.9%
American Indian114149
 30.7%
Asian3831
 18.4%
Hispanic13601538
 13.1%
Pacific Islander33
White753702
 6.8%
Two or More Races124137
 10.5%
% Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients27.6%17.9%
 9.7%


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Students at Cleveland High School are 58% Hispanic, 27% White, 6% American Indian, 5% Two or more races, 3% African American, 1% Asian.

In the 2022-23 school year, 2,631 students attended Cleveland High School.

Cleveland High School ranks 26th of 190 New Mexico high schools. SchoolDigger rates this school 4 stars out of 5.


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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the New Mexico Public Education Department.

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