Government directory/New Mexico/Independent school district
U.S. Census government inventory · ID 210645

Jal.

Independent school district in New Mexico · Census county area: Lea.

Independent school districtSchool districtFunctioning
School system at a glance

Students, schools, and public money.

Election.org connected this entity to its fiscal year 2024 Census finance record by exact government ID and to its 2024–25 NCES district and school directory by exact agency ID.

550students in the finance record
3operating schools connected
$20,736current spending per pupil
What voters decided · Nov. 4, 2025

1 official school-board contest.

See every candidate, vote total, source-marked winner, and precinct status the New Mexico Secretary of State published for this school system. Election.org calculated vote shares from candidate votes—not from the portal's decorative bar widths.

4candidate rows
2source-marked winners
709candidate votes across these contests
Official outcomes

Candidates and votes, contest by contest.

Results are not a current-board roster
What this establishes

A verified 2025 election result.

Candidate labels, aggregate votes, source-marked winners, and precinct reporting are reproduced from the official portal. The district connection uses an exact NCES name relationship or one of the checked-in cross-agency title identities.

What remains missing

The present governing board.

This result does not prove installation or continued service. A complete civic record still needs the current roster, full seat and term structure, vacancies and appointments, voting geography, meetings, recorded votes, contracts, and later changes.

New Mexico Secretary of StateBrowse every 2025 statewide school-board result

The statewide portal reports 138 school-board contests, 360 candidate rows, and 2,169 of 2,169 precincts fully reported.

Open official statewide results →

Source last updated 11/26/2025 8:09 AM MT. Possible Recount labels are preserved exactly where published. Winner status is source-marked and never inferred from the highest vote total. Write-in labels are preserved as published. No voter records, candidate contact details, or home addresses are collected.

Six years of enrollment and school finance

See what changed—not just one year.

Exact federal identifiers connect 6 annual Census records for this system. Source dollars stay visible, while spending changes are also converted to constant 2024 dollars.

Census annual tables ↗
Enrollment5501.9% higher than 2019
Current spending / pupil$20,73674.1% higher than 2019 after inflation · 113.6% higher than 2019 nominal
Total expenditure$39.7M141.9% higher than 2019 · nominal
Debt outstanding$92.7M114.2% higher than 2019 · nominal
Enrollment reported by Census
2019: 540; 2020: 547; 2021: 472; 2022: 508; 2023: 527; 2024: 550561511461201920202021202220232024
Current spending per pupil (2024 dollars)
2019: $11,913; 2020: $12,643; 2021: $16,089; 2022: $15,675; 2023: $18,046; 2024: $20,736$21,971$16,324$10,678201920202021202220232024
Funding mix over time

Federal, state, and local shares

20190.7% F16.2% S83.1% L
20201.3% F14.4% S84.3% L
20211.0% F14.5% S84.5% L
20220.7% F10.8% S88.5% L
20230.5% F8.8% S90.7% L
20240.8% F15.7% S83.5% L
View the 2019–2024 values as a table
YearEnrollmentSpending / pupilTotal revenueTotal expenditureDebt
2019540$9,709$24,650,000$16,411,000$43,280,000
2020547$10,431$29,906,000$11,690,000$27,135,000
2021472$13,898$30,436,000$13,278,000$25,080,000
2022508$14,624$63,747,000$16,198,000$19,147,000
2023527$17,529$77,987,000$25,206,000$46,360,000
2024550$20,736$59,315,000$39,692,000$92,720,000

Source-reported nominal dollars. Amount fields are converted from source thousands to dollars. No inflation adjustment is applied. An exact identifier links published source rows; it does not erase consolidations, closures, reorganizations, or other real institutional changes between years. Constant-dollar comparisons use BLS CPI-U series CUUR0000SA0, annual U.S. city average; this is not a local cost-of-living index. Joined by exact Census PID6 or NCES LEAID; names are never used.

Where the money comes from

$59.3M in reported revenue.

Census finance source ↗
Federal0.8%$496,000
State15.7%$9.29M
Local83.5%$49.5M
Total expenditures$39.7M
Current spending$12.6M
Instruction$5.97M
Support services$5.15M
Capital outlay$27.1M
Debt outstanding$92.7M

Fiscal year 2024. Census source amounts are published in thousands of dollars and converted here to dollars; per-pupil fields are published as dollar amounts. Revenue percentages are reproduced from the source.

District contact

JAL

Regular public school district that is not a component of a supervisory union

GradesPK12
StatusOpen
Address200 E PANTHER, JAL, NM, 88252
Open district website →
Still needed for a complete civic record

The federal layer is useful—but it is not the whole school board.

  • Current board roster, installation and continued-service confirmation, authorized seat structure, terms, vacancies, and appointment history
  • Earlier board-election history, the next election calendar, filings, richer candidate profiles, campaign disclosures, and any final recount disposition
  • Exact attendance and board-seat boundaries for an address
  • Normalized meeting agendas, minutes, recorded votes, and decision history
  • School-level outcomes, audited contracts and vendors, and inflation-adjusted spending comparisons
The source record

A functioning Census entity.

The Census ACTIVE field is Y for this record.

Census ID
210645
Record type
Independent school district
Classification
School district
School level
Elementary and Secondary
Status
Functioning
Published contact fields

Contact and location

Mailing addressPO BOX 1386 · JAL, NM · 88252-1386
Census contact/title fieldSupt
County areaLea
Reported websiteNot published

Websites are primarily self-reported and received only limited Census Bureau quality control. County area can mean the area most served or the headquarters county when boundaries cross counties.

Published context

Scale and parent relationship

Estimated enrollment5272023

Evidence boundary

What each source proves—and what it does not.

Established by the published records

  • The entity or system appears in the 2025 Census listing.
  • Its Census category, identifier, and functioning/dormant field.
  • Only the location, function, population, enrollment, and contact fields actually published.
  • The New Mexico Secretary of State reports the 2025 school-board candidate labels, candidate votes, source-marked winners, and precinct reporting shown above.

Not established by these records

  • That a source-marked 2025 winner took office, remains in office, or completes the present board roster.
  • Current trustees, authorized seat structure, terms, vacancies, appointments, boundaries, meetings, recorded votes, policies, contracts, or later election changes.
  • The exact geographic service boundary or that a reported website remains current.