ANTERA ROSADO FUENTES

ANTERA ROSADO FUENTES is a K-5 school of sprawling scale in RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico, part of PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, teacheing 444 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Puerto Rico's public schools average about 232 students each, so ANTERA ROSADO FUENTES sits 91% bigger than that benchmark.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION runs 856 schools in total, collectively educating 236,079 students. ANTERA ROSADO FUENTES is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, ANTERA ROSADO FUENTES lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (99%). That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 9.2:1 average. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Río Grande Municipio) shows that median household earnings sit near $28,943 and census figures put the poverty rate at about 31%. ANTERA ROSADO FUENTES is one of 10 public schools in Río Grande Municipio (combined enrollment of about 2,554 students).

The closest other public school is PEDRO FALU ORELLANO, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. ANTERA ROSADO FUENTES's enrollment has edged down 6% since 2018, when it stood at 474 (now 444). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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