unincorporated community
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in
Santa Fe County, New Mexico
Santa Fe County (; meaning "County of the Holy faith" in Spanish) is a county located in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, its population was 154,823, making it New Mexico's third-most populous county, after Bernalillo Count ...
Climate type occurs primarily on the periphery of the true deserts in low-latitude semiarid steppe regions. The
Köppen Climate Classification
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sub-type for this climate is '' BSk'' (Tropical and Subtropical Steppe Climate).
Demographics
Education
Stanley is in the Moriarty Municipal Schools district.
It was formerly in the Santa Fe School District, which operated a school in Stanley, which in 1962 had 150 students. In 1962 that district's school board approved a plan to have the district moved to Moriarty Municipal Schools. The superintendent of the Santa Fe district advocated for closing the Stanley School because of the following reasons: was in close proximity to the one of Moriarty, that it would not be viable as an elementary only school if only the high school were closed, the poor physical state of the building and it was not meeting the academic benchmarks set by the state government of New Mexico.
Jeffrey Epstein
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, financier, convicted
sex offender
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, owned a rural compound located approximately eight miles north of Stanley
* Alice King, former First Lady of New Mexico
* Bruce King, 23rd, 25th and 28th
Governor of New Mexico
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Hee Haw
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