Santa Rosa is home to Luna Community College, as well as four schools, two medical clinics, a 58-bed nursing home, and a new state-of-the art hospital. Mesalands Community College and New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas are within 70 miles of Santa Rosa. Another city asset is a community golf course. Santa Rosa also has a two-runway airport - part of the runway was Route 66 in a previous incarnation.
The Vaughn Municipal School Board of Education, through its duties and responsibilities, believes and affirms that the primary missio of the Vaughn Municipal Schools is to make available to all its students opportunities to develop the knowledge,skills,attitudes,habits,values, and character essential to enrich their personal lives.