Deming Public Schools

The district serves the city of Deming and the village of Columbus as well as all other areas in Luna County.

[1] Deming Public Schools buses U.S. citizen students residing in Mexico (including the city of Palomas) from the United States-Mexico border to Columbus Elementary and to upper grades in Deming.

Many children living in Palomas are U.S. citizens because the U.S. federal and New Mexico state policies allow women in Palomas to give birth in the nearest hospital, which is in Deming, on the U.S. side of the border.

Viridiana Chacon, the principal of Columbus Elementary, used Skype to communicate with parents living in Mexico.

Around the 1970s Luna County began requiring U.S. citizenship in order for children to attend schools, but the district continued accepting children not living in Luna County.