Manzano High School

Albuquerque, NM 87112

Phone: (505) 880-3744
District: Albuquerque Public Schools

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GreatSchools Rating

public • Grades 9-12 • 1157 students

Albuquerque's Manzano High School serves grades 9-12 in the Albuquerque Public Schools district. It has received a GreatSchools Rating of 7 out of 10, based on its performance on state standardized tests.

Manzano High School is a public school located in Albuquerque, NM. 1157 students attend Manzano High School.

School Ratings

Category Rating Details
College Readiness 2/10 The College Readiness Rating uses this high school's graduation rates, college entrance exam participation and performance, or AP, IB, or Dual Enrollment participation to determine how well schools are preparing students for success in college and beyond. The College Readiness Rating was created using the following data from the 2021 Civil Rights Data Collection: percentage of students enrolled in IB, AP or Dual Enrollment classes in grades 9-12, using 2023 4-year high school graduation rate data from New Mexico Public Education Department, and using 2023 demographic data from the National Center for Education Statistics.
Student Growth 7/10 The Student Progress Rating measures whether students at this school are making academic progress over time based on student growth data provided by the Department of Education. Specifically, this rating looks at how much progress individual students have made on state assessments during the past year or more, how this performance aligns with expected progress based on a student growth model established by the state Department of Education, and how this school's growth data compares to other schools in the state. The Growth Rating was created using 2023 Student growth data from New Mexico Public Education Department.

Worrisome patterns of chronic student absenteeism have been identified.

Posted: September 3, 2025

Once high school is a terrible high school, the staff care more about punishing. The kids didn’t actually taking care of them and teaching them. The deans are terrible. The principal was terrible overall it was a terrible experience for me and my kids save yourself trouble and transfer your kids out of the school if you can.

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Posted: May 7, 2021

This school supports students to achieve their goals.

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Posted: May 4, 2015

Manzano is a great school, it has an amazing English department, strong music and sports programs. They have more languages than most high schools as mandarin, italian, german, spanish, vietnamese, and others are offered. My children have done quite well with their education from MHS...two are in college in the medical and engineering programs. The science and math programs have struggled through the years due to teachers passing away or other misfortunes...but they do have great teachers in these areas. I think one of the best things about MHS is the diversity; every ethnicity attends manzano, every socio-economic status and every culture is represented to my knowledge. The passion for people is strong and the judgement against foreign cultures is low, it is the real world as it should be. Please support these great kids, teachers and community!

Posted: October 31, 2013

I don't have a kid that go there thank God! but after learning that one of their school counselors was involved in child abuse, bullying and harassment is working there? WOW! Check the public record if you think I'm joking.

Posted: October 20, 2013

My school has really great kids and they are all very nice, but the teachers are not really good at teaching. they do not interact with the kids enough they just talk and assume that we can soak in all that information. Manzano is really going to help me get a good future because the only reason I am attending this school is to play varsity basketball. Manzano is a pretty good school but who am I to say its the best.

Posted: August 12, 2012

My son graduated 3 months ago. My impressions follow: Great English department; hopefully the same teachers continue. Great band program. The science teachers seem genuinely interested in the kids; but the administration doesn't help them much. Some teachers in the math department have the practice of retrieving the tests after the students have looked at them. This prevents the students from later studying the problems they missed. It also means the teacher won't have to worry about students sharing the same test with next year's class. In my education, this happened rarely, and was detrimental to learning. I don't think Manzano's math teachers are overly energetic, nor effective. When I called to talk to teachers, about 40% of them didn't call back unless an e-mail was sent to them with a copy to the Vice-Principal. Good teachers would call back within 24 hours, usually the same day. The others could take a week or more. If I had an issue with their teaching method (usually math), they would put the focus on my child, rather than their method. This seemed to be a common technique they used to keep from admitting any culpability or drawback of their own.

Posted: March 24, 2011

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1 Northeast Heights Neighborhood/Subdivision Albuquerque NM 4.9 mi
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