ALEJANDRO TAPIA Y RIVERA SAN JUAN

As a compact elementary-level community in SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, ALEJANDRO TAPIA Y RIVERA SAN JUAN hosts 174 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. By comparison, Puerto Rico's public schools average about 232 students each, so ALEJANDRO TAPIA Y RIVERA SAN JUAN sits 25% below that benchmark.

ALEJANDRO TAPIA Y RIVERA SAN JUAN is one of 856 schools operated by PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, a district that hosts 236,079 students overall.

On the student-mix side, ALEJANDRO TAPIA Y RIVERA SAN JUAN records that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That composition is broadly in line with San Juan Municipio as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, ALEJANDRO TAPIA Y RIVERA SAN JUAN has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 6.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 9.2:1 average. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the surrounding community, census data for San Juan Municipio shows the typical household earns roughly $27,992 per year and roughly 36% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across San Juan Municipio's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,154 students), ALEJANDRO TAPIA Y RIVERA SAN JUAN is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ERNESTO RAMOS ANTONINI SAN JUAN, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 32%: 256 students in 2018 compared to 174 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 10.7:1 in 2018 to 6.4:1 today.

On this page, members of the ALEJANDRO TAPIA Y RIVERA SAN JUAN community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.