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The graphs below provide information on kindergarten readiness as measured by New Mexico’s Early Childhood Observation Tool (ECOT). This assessment gathers information on what children know and what they can do at the time of kindergarten entry. This is a helpful tool to identify students’ needs and areas where families and teachers can support those needs.

There are many different factors that impact early childhood assessments. Therefore, these assessments do not fully indicate a student’s potential for success.

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The graphs below look at the percentage of children who meet kindergarten readiness standards (as measured by ECOT). The cohort or group of students represented here are kindergartners who attend New Mexico public schools and have an ECOT assessment record. Students who meet the standard of kindergarten readiness are those who received an average domain score corresponding to Achievement Level on the ECOT of at least “Accomplished for 4s (First Steps for K).” Please note that kindergarten assessments were not required during the 2020-2021 school year.

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New Mexico aims to achieve a goal of increasing students’ successful completion of high school with research-based, relevant, applied, and experiential learning opportunities that support all students to become college- and career-ready and contribute as productive members of their communities. The graphs below provide information on New Mexico high school graduation rates varied by key characteristics of student populations in the state.

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The graphs and map below look at the percentage of students who graduated from New Mexico high schools (public and charter schools) within four, five, and six years of high school enrollment. You can also see the graduation rate broken down by different demographics to see how these rates may differ for specific student populations or how these numbers change for different school districts and schools. If a district or school is not showing up in a drop-down menu or in a given year, or if data is not available in a given year, it is due to a number of potential reasons. Some districts or schools in a drop-down menu or data in a given school year might be unavailable, not reported, or suppressed (in order to protect individual privacy when there is a small number of student). A slashed zero indicates suppressed data when distinguished from unavailable data. Some charts indicate both unavailable data and suppressed data by not showing anything.

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New Mexico values higher education and is committed to increasing access to college and career training programs for all New Mexicans. The graphs below demonstrate how New Mexico public school seniors progress through higher education or credit-bearing certificate programs within six years after high school.

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The cohort or group of students in this chart are all students enrolled as seniors in a New Mexico public high school (including district and charter schools) in any given year who have a New Mexico postsecondary enrollment within six years following high school. Some scenarios of individuals excluded from this cohort include students who attend college or career training outside of New Mexico, might not have a higher education enrollment within six years of high school, or never enroll in a New Mexico public college or university. This chart only shows percentages of students in the following categories in order to protect the privacy of individuals in smaller groups.

The categories displayed in the graph below:

• First Enrollment means that the student’s enrollment status in the dataset is classified as “Incoming Freshman” and that no degree is earned in the same year. 
• Continuing Enrollment means that higher education enrollment status is “continuing” in the dataset and that no degree is earned in the same year.
• Earned Degree or Certificate means that a higher education degree was earned in a given academic year.
• No Postsecondary Record indicates that there is not yet a record of enrollment in a New Mexico higher education institution or that higher education enrollment has discontinued after enrollment in prior year(s).

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The graphs below show annual wages (for workers with four quarters of consecutive wages in a given year) for two different cohorts over time. While wages only provide limited information on a person’s experience in the workforce, seeing these trends broken down this way sheds light on new questions and insights.

The first graph investigates employment metrics for students who received a degree or certificate from a New Mexico public college or university.

The second graph investigates employment metrics after the latest calendar year in which an adult education student (individual who received 12 or more hours of instruction) participated.

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Quarterly wage data comes from the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions (NMDWS) Unemployment Insurance (UI) database. This information is submitted by employers who support the UI program through the taxes they pay. These wage records include the total amount of wages paid to each employee by those employers. Wage records are used for counting numbers of individuals employed as well as analyzing the amounts of associated wages.

While these wage data can be very informative, it is important to know that they only tell part of the story. Our wage data do not describe circumstances, such as unemployment or lack of work, self-employment, retirement, working in another state (other than New Mexico), attending a postsecondary institution full time, working for the federal government or military, or leaving the labor force for another reason.

Yearly Average vs. Median Wage: Yearly wages are averaged, or a median is calculated per year for the selected cohort. The average (also called the “mean”) is found by adding all the wages together and then dividing by the total number of individuals in the cohort. The median is found by putting all the values in order from smallest to largest and then taking the value in the middle of the list. All amounts shown for wages are the original amounts reported by employers. No adjustments have been made for inflation or any other factors.