517 Cedardale Loop
Las Cruces, NM 88005

Vista Middle School is an amazing place! I would highly recommend their Music Technology Magnet Program. The kids enrolled join band, choir or orchestra and are the only ones in the LCPS district to take a Music Technology class. The students learn music theory, how to compose their own music, create music videos and even have access to a state of the art recording booth. The teachers and staff are dedicated to the students and provide them with an excellent education. The MESA, Science Olympiad and Alternative Fuels teams are tops in the city, region and state with amazing Science teachers as their coaches. The school puts on a musical performance each Spring with an opportunity for EVERY student interested to be involved in the performance. Vista is an amazing place for middle schoolers!

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The focus of the school goes beyond providing education for students--it helps students plan their future. Students are required to adapt quick to the school environment, where regular classes go twice as fast compared to other schools that surrounds it because the course is only one semester long instead of two semesters. Because of that, students almost complete their high school graduation requirements while still being a sophomore! Students spend their remaining two years working on their Associate's degree, and most of them, if they do not change career paths, even get to work in their Bachelor's degree for their last semester of their high school senior year! The school pays for all college expenses, high school classes are really of good help, the school is guarded by charismatic securities all the time, has the most wonderful yet small campus in New Mexico, and students have access to different technological tools--there are IPad tablets and laptops available in almost every classroom, almost every classroom contains three good-quality smart boards that are located around the classroom, there is a Mac lab available for students, and laptops available for check out for students if they need access to one from home. To conclude, it was a great exeprience and I love the different engineering, medical, criminal justice, along with other careers, that the school offers. Your kid will obtain a good education here and will be helped by the school to go beyond just a high school graduation. Although the school name, grade level, and contact info are incorrect. I was a junior when it was finally from grade levels 9-12. Now it is called Arrowhead Park Early College High School, from grade levels 9-12, and the address is now 3600 Arrowhead Dr, Las Cruces, NM, 88011, which is in the New Mexico State University area and just a few blocks away from its previous location. I hope this gets fixed.

I give this school the worst possible rating. If you pick your child up, you won't leave for a few hours because of the traffic.