Nationally, the school-based health care movement started in the early 1980s with a handful of projects. Today, more than 1,700 school-based health centers serve nearly two million young people across the U.S. every year. Approximately 40 percent of these students have no other medical home, largely because they live in communities with limited access to health care.  The national movement is led  by the National Assembly on School-Based Health Care.

In New Mexico, the school–based health center movement is more than 25 years old. Read more about the history of this movement.