Los Lunas Public Schools

Los Lunas Public Schools is a school district based in Los Lunas, New Mexico.

Los Lunas Public Schools serve to educate students in Los Lunas, Bosque Farms, Peralta, Valencia, Tomé, Meadow Lake, El Cerro, El Cerro Mission, and the Isleta Pueblo.

In 2005 the district had a total of 16 schools with approximately 8,500 students. It had 8 elemenentary, 3 intermediate, 2 middle, and 2 high schools, as well as 1 alternative high school.

Elementary schools

Grades K through 6

Grades K through 4

Intermediate schools

Grades 5 & 6

Middle schools

Grades 7 & 8

High schools

Grades 9 through 12

Grades 10 through 12

Los Lunas, New Mexico

Los Lunas is a village in Valencia County, New Mexico, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the village population is 14,835 inside the village limits due to the new housing developments at El Cerro de Los Lunas (Huning Ranch). It is the county seat of Valencia County.

Los Lunas is part of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area. The name "Los Lunas" is a partial Anglicization of the name of the Luna family, who originally settled in the area (los Luna, in Spanish).

History

The original land grant was made to Don Adrian Luna Candelaria in 1716, but within two years it was given to the Luna family. Some Civil War battles were fought near the village. Los Lunas became the county seat in 1876 and became an incorporated village in 1928. The Los Lunas Decalogue Stone is located nearby.

Geography and climate

Los Lunas is located at 34°48′34″N 106°44′7″W / 34.80944°N 106.73528°W / 34.80944; -106.73528 (34.809336, -106.735247). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 10.1 square miles (26.0 km²), all land. The village lies in the Albuquerque Basin on the west bank of the Rio Grande, and is on State Highway 6, east of Interstate 25.

Los Lunas (Rail Runner station)

Los Lunas is a station on the New Mexico Rail Runner Express commuter rail line, located in Los Lunas, New Mexico, at the intersection of NM Highway 314 and Courthouse Road. The station began service on December 11, 2006 as the fourth station on the line. Los Lunas Public Transportation has shuttles serving the station. Each of the Rail Runner stations contains an icon to express each community's identity. The icon representing this station is the old Los Lunas train station.

The station has free parking, with 190 spaces, with congestion at the parking lot requiring that an extension be built less than a year after the station originally opened. This extension was opened on 30 April 2007. The mayor of the town admitted that more parking was needed although the extension had recently been built; the next phase of expansion involves building 120 new spaces.

Gallery

The icon for Los Lunas station

The icon for Los Lunas station

The platform

The platform