Your Kids Will Get an Excellent Education in Roswell & Chaves County

RISD has four high schools: Roswell High School, Goddard High School, Early College High School, and University High School. There are also four middle schools and 12 elementary schools. The high school students have the option to enroll in advanced placement, college-bound or traditional classes. More than 60 percent of graduating seniors choose to continue their education after high school. The current student population with RISD is approximately 10,000, boasting a districtwide attendance rate of 95.4 percent. Sports play a major role in the student’s physical fitness, and RISD schools have won many state championships in football, basketball, competitive cheer, and more. The schools offer many fine arts programs – more than any other in the state of New Mexico.

There are public schools in each of the lower valley towns including Dexter Consolidated Schools, Hagerman Municipal Schools as well as Lake Arthur Municipal Schools. The lower valley schools have smaller classroom settings than the schools in Roswell. Dexter Consolidated Schools has 930 students in grades PK, K-12 with a student ratio of 17 to 1. Hagerman Municipal Schools has 458 students in grade PK. K-12 with a student ratio of 13 to 1. Lake Arthur Municipal Schools serves about 100 students in their schools. Each of the lower valley schools offers quality academic programs, teachers, and facilities. Music, art, sports, and other extracurricular activities are also available.

All Saints Catholic School serves students from preschool through the eighth grade. Committed to academic excellence and rooted in the tradition and ideals of the Catholic faith, All Saints provides an environment in which all students are enabled to reach their full academic and spiritual potential in an atmosphere that strongly encourages following the example and teachings of Jesus Christ.

Gateway Christian School serves students from preschool through high school. It offers many opportunities with strong academics, a fine-arts department, championship athletics, after-school programs, and a daycare facility on campus. Gateway has been educating students in a family atmosphere since 1981.

Immanuel Lutheran School serves students from preschool through eighth grade. It offers opportunities for families that desire a different kind of parochial education – one that focuses on grammar, logic, and rhetoric (trivium), daily chapel, Latin and Greek languages, and continual parental involvement.

Started in 1891, NMMI is one of the nation’s top military boarding schools and provides a co-ed college preparatory, a four-year military boarding school, and a two-year university-parallel junior college. Outstanding academics are coupled with discipline and physical fitness to produce students with the ability to be competitive in all aspects of life. NMMI hosts over 900 students from 40 states and 33 countries. It’s known as the “West Point of the West” and attracts students from across the country and worldwide. NMMI serves future military and civilian leaders’ secondary and higher education needs. This co-ed institution has highly competitive admissions standards and an enrollment of approximately 1,000 students.

Roswell Job Corps Center is a residential education and vocational training facility dedicated to working with young adults, ages 16-24, to earn their high school diploma, and GED or achieve academic proficiency, and train for certification in one of seven career technical trades. The trades include automotive technology, culinary arts, electrical wiring, health occupations, business construction technology, painting and remodeling and protective services.

The New Mexico National Guard Youth Challenge Academy provides education, leadership, character development, and life-coping skills through training, discipline, and mentoring.  The New Mexico National Guard Youth Challenge Academy is a 17 ½ month program that starts with a demanding 22-week quasi-military residential phase in which cadets will live in Roswell. This is followed by a year of mentoring support to help our graduates maintain positive lifestyles.

Established in 1958, the campus of Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell (ENMU-Roswell) provides high quality, affordable education and life-long learning opportunities. The faculty-student ratio is kept low, with small classes, allowing instructors to provide support and personal attention to students.