Del Norte High School

Overview

Del Norte High School, established in 1964, is a public high school on a 45.2-acre campus in the northeast heights of Albuquerque, part of Albuquerque Public Schools.

Academics

This is the first school in this directory where we found an actual historical state-issued letter grade rather than only a secondary aggregator's estimate: the New Mexico Public Education Department's accountability system gave the school a B for the 2010-11 school year, per Wikipedia's sourcing. We did not independently verify a more recent grade for this profile -- check the New Mexico Public Education Department's site directly for current results, since a grade from 2010-11 is old enough that it shouldn't be treated as describing the school today.

Neighborhood

The school is in Albuquerque's northeast heights, an area one source specifically describes as consistently posting the city's lowest crime rates and containing Albuquerque Public Schools' highest-rated campuses, distinct from higher-crime parts of the city further south and west.

Crime & safety

Albuquerque's citywide crime data is mixed across sources by magnitude, though less dramatically than some other cities in this directory: one source describes overall crime as 16% below the national average with a C+ grade, while another finds Albuquerque to be "one of the top 100 most dangerous cities in the U.S.A." based on a comparison against communities of all sizes. Sources agree the northeast heights specifically -- where this school is located -- is consistently one of the city's safer areas, with citywide neighborhood grading showing 99% of Albuquerque neighborhoods earning an A or B, and the northeast specifically noted as having the fewest total crime incidents of any part of the city.

Our calculated rating

We don't publish a single proprietary score. The one historical academic data point we found (a 2010-11 B grade) is too old to use responsibly, and while the safety signal for this specific neighborhood is favorable and well-corroborated, that's still only 1 of 3 possible components. See our ratings methodology.

Sources