Alamogordo Public Schools
The Alamagordo Municipal School District No. 1, also the Alamogordo Public School District or Alamogordo Public Schools (APS), is a school district that serves the communities of Alamogordo, High Rolls, Holloman Air Force Base, Mountain Park, and La Luz and portions of unincorporated Otero County in the state of New Mexico. History. The first school in the city opened in 1898, originally using a tent, although the school district itself was organized in 1914. The district considers 1898 as its year of establishment. Enrollment around World War II increased with the opening of Alamogordo Army Air Field  (now Holloman Air Force Base), causing a previously stable student population to increase. In 1947 it had 1,500 students and 53 teachers. In 1949 Alamogordo High School began admitting African-American students, and by 1951 the school district was racially integrated. When the personnel at the base asked for the school district to completely desegregate for the benefit of its black employees, the school system did so. On July 1, 1959 the following school areas consolidated into Alamogordo schools: Cienega, High Rolls, La Luz, Orogrande, Piñon, and Weed. 325 total students were in these schools. Previously Weed schools were under  the Otero County Board of Education. Weed residents believed the Alamogordo district would be more likely to keep their schools open if there was an enrollment decrease, so in 1958 they decided to join Alamogordo schools instead of Cloudcroft Municipal Schools. The Cloudcroft school board disliked the decision and in 1958 passed a motion stating that the district should not accept Weed or Pinon students even if their respective areas offered to pay tuition to Cloudcroft schools. Upon obtaining the areas, the Alamogordo school board closed the elementary schools in Orogrande and Piñon. The Piñon community appealed, but in December  1959 the board upheld its decision. In 1967 it had 8,900 students and 415 teachers. In May 1970 it had 9,947 students. In November 1992 the Cloudcroft district's board passed a resolution to annex portions of the Alamogordo district, including Piñon, Timberon, and Weed, as well as several ranches. By that time all Alamogordo district facilities in Weed had closed. Attendance area. In addition to Alamogordo it serves Boles Acres, High Rolls, Holloman Air Force Base, La Luz, and Orogrande. It also includes the Mountain Park area. The area around the former Cienega School is about from Alamogordo and  from Dell City, Texas; while it is in the Alamogordo district boundaries, due to the respective distances, the Alamogordo district has an agreement with Dell City Independent School District, so that district could educate students from the Cienega area. Dell City ISD served grades 9-12 from that area after the opening of Alamogordo district's grade 1-8 Cienega School in 1965. In 1967 the eighth grade was moved to Dell City ISD. In 1970, all grades K-12 were and are sent to Dell City ISD as Cienega School closed. Other facilities. The district headquarters, the former Indiana Elementary  School, became used for the purpose in 1958. The lighted athletic field, which had 4,500-seat bleacher facilities, a cinder running track, opened in 1957, with a concession stand/field house opening in 1965.