Not New Mexico but New Spain is heavily taught - it's an entire section.

I also don't know when you were in K-7 but knowing HN's age demographics probably the 1980s to early 1990s.

From the 2000s onwards, New Spain and Spanish rule was prominent.

Here are the snippets of the Texas History textbook from around the time I was in grade school in the 2000s [0][1][2]

[0] - https://worleytxhistory.weebly.com/uploads/8/7/9/6/8796216/c...

[1] - https://worleytxhistory.weebly.com/uploads/8/7/9/6/8796216/c...

[2] - https://worleytxhistory.weebly.com/uploads/8/7/9/6/8796216/c...