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shacks. Within two years, modern school buildings had been built or were planned for several districts and enrollment was up 60%. One of the new schools was the
Ranchos de Atrisco school in county district 9, which served the rural community of Armijo. As with most of his projects, Montoya designed
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Bernalillo County school superintendent Atanasio Montoya, who was appointed in 1912 and almost immediately began an ambitious project to modernize the rural school system. At the time of Montoya's appointment, school attendance was poor and most
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in 1949 along with all of the other remaining county schools, and in 1954 the school celebrated its 40th year of operation. It finally closed around 1960 when the current Armijo
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