The following is a list of spellers each county may send to the New Mexico Spelling Bee. It is based on the number of schools enrolled with the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
| Albuquerque Public Schools | 4 |
| Albuquerque Charter Schools | 1 |
| Albuquerque private/parochial | 2 |
| Albuquerque home school | 1 |
| Catron | 1 |
| Cibola | 2 |
| Colfax | 1 |
| Curry | 1 |
| DeBaca | 0 |
| Guadalupe | 1 |
| Harding | 0 |
| Hidalgo | 1 |
| Lea | 3 |
| Los Alamos | 1 |
| McKinley | 2 |
| Mora | 1 |
| Quay | 0 |
| Rio Arriba | 1 |
| Rio Rancho | 2 |
| Roosevelt | 1 |
| San Juan | 3 |
| San Miguel | 1 |
| Sandoval | 1 |
| Santa Fe | 3 |
| Socorro | 1 |
| Taos | 2 |
| Torrance | 1 |
| Union | 1 |
| Valencia | 3 |
| Total | 42 |