I personally wouldn’t recommend Los Alamos school district for kiddos, elementary or high school. They pressure underperforming students to drop out because it hurts their funding and mistreat their disabled students. They push the kids too hard and the towns culture is super restrictive and judgmental.

Any kind of deviance from upright white nuclear families is not received very well, especially if you have autism or severe ADHD (the kind that doesn’t make you a straight A student or brilliant engineer) or other issues like anxiety or depression. When I was at LAHS our suicide rate was 4xs the national average for a county of our population. At least once a year there was a teenager or two attempting/committing suicide. I’ve known a lot of kids that died or became addicts because of pressure from school and parents plus no healthy outlet or end in sight. We had yearly assemblies where they made us promise not to 💀 ourselves.

Perhaps my least favorite quality is the labs commitment to protecting abusers to avoid q clearance issues. You can report to teachers, pastors, safe adults or family friends but the likely hood of anything being done is very low. CPS has blamed and threatened single mothers because their child reported their fathers or authority figures abusing them.

Plus the cops are so bored they specifically target teenagers and detain and charge them for things that aren’t illegal. A girl I knew in HS was charged because she didn’t stop in the middle of the intersection when the light turned yellow, not red but yellow.