Taos Municipal Schools (TMS) or Taos Municipal School District (TMSD) is a school district based in

Taos, New Mexico Taos is a town in Taos County in the north-central region of New Mexico in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Initially founded in 1615, it was intermittently occupied until its formal establishment in 1795 by Nuevo México Governor Fernando Cha ...

, United States. Taos Municipal Schools has a total area of . The school district has a total of six schools. The district has one high school, one middle school, three elementary schools, and one magnet school.

History

Beginning in 1997 the number of students declined. Due to elderly people making up an increasing percentage of area residents and a post-1999 drop in births in Taos County, in 2022 the district anticipated an upcoming decline in the number of students.

Service area

The district serves serves the communities of Taos, Arroyo Hondo, Arroyo Seco,

Ranchos de Taos Ranchos de Taos is a census-designated place (CDP) in Taos County, New Mexico. The population was 2,390 at the time of the 2000 census. The historic district is the Ranchos de Taos Plaza, which includes the San Francisco de Asis Mission Chu ...

, San Cristobal,

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Taos Pueblo Taos Pueblo (or Pueblo de Taos) is an ancient pueblo belonging to a Taos-speaking (Tiwa) Native American tribe of Puebloan people. It lies about north of the modern city of Taos, New Mexico. The pueblos are considered to be one of the oldest c ...

, and almost all of

Taos Ski Valley Taos Ski Valley is a village and alpine ski resort in the southwestern United States, located in Taos County, New Mexico. The population was 69 at the 2010 census. Until March 19, 2008, it was one of four ski resorts in America to prohibit sn ...

. It also includes Cañon, Ranchitos, El Prado, Des Montes, Llano Quemado, and Cordillera.

Schools

; Secondary schools *

Taos High School Taos High School, founded in 1917, is the public high school in Taos, New Mexico, United States. A part of the Taos Municipal Schools school district, is located outside of Taos Pueblo, at the base of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The distr ...

(Taos) * Taos Middle School (Taos) ;Elementary schools * Arroyos del Norte Elementary School (''

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'') * Enos Garcia Elementary School (Taos) ** In 2011 it had 602 students. In 2020 this was down to 440. * Ranchos Elementary School (

) ** In 2011 it had 459 students. In 2020 this was down to 279. ;Magnet schools * Taos Cyber Magnet School

References

External links

Taos Municipal Schools
{{Education in Taos County, New Mexico Education in Taos County, New Mexico School districts in New Mexico

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