New Mexico Statutes

N.M. Stat. § 22-5-1.1 (2026)

Local school board members; elected from districts.

✓ current as of May 2026

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Members of local school boards in districts having a population in excess of sixteen
thousand shall reside in and be elected from single-member districts. Once, following
every federal decennial census, the local school board shall divide the school district
into a number of election districts equal in number to the number of members on the
school board. Such election districts shall be contiguous and compact and as equal in
population as is practicable; provided that the local school board of any district having a
population of sixteen thousand or less may provide for single-member districts as
provided in this section.

History: 1978 Comp., § 22-5-1.1, enacted by Laws 1985, ch. 202, § 1; 1993, ch. 226, §
10.

                                     ANNOTATIONS

The 1993 amendment, effective July 1, 1993, deleted "Notwithstanding any other
provision of the Public School Code" at the beginning of the first sentence.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1997–2017 · leading case: Alarcon v. Albuquerque Pub. Schs. Bd. of Educ., 413 P.3d 507 (N.M. Ct. App. 2017).

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Alarcon v. Albuquerque Pub. Schs. Bd. of Educ., 413 P.3d 507 (N.M. Ct. App. 2017). · cites it 2× “(Members of the school board are elected under Section 22-5-1.1). {67} Summarizing, the PEBA provides that the locally elected body of the employer, which makes the employer's policies, is the proper party to engage in collective bargaining with a labor organization which has…”

Duke v. Grady Mun. Schs., 127 F.3d 972 (10th Cir. 1997). “For example, local board members are elected from residents of the district in which they live, N.M. Stat. Ann. § 22-5-1.1 ; subject to state board regulations, they “supervise and control all public schools within the school district and all property belonging to or in the…”

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