ANTONIO PAOLI PONCE

Located at CALLE REINA FINAL, in PONCE, Puerto Rico, ANTONIO PAOLI PONCE is an one-room-style 6-8 campus that educates 78 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. By comparison, Puerto Rico's public schools average about 242 students each, so ANTONIO PAOLI PONCE sits 68% smaller than that benchmark.

ANTONIO PAOLI PONCE is one of 856 schools operated by PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, a district that hosts 236,079 students overall.

Demographically, ANTONIO PAOLI PONCE logs that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, ANTONIO PAOLI PONCE records 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 9.9:1 average. Roughly 91% of students at ANTONIO PAOLI PONCE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Ponce Municipio indicate the typical household earns roughly $19,877 per year and the poverty rate sits near 46%. In all, Ponce Municipio runs 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,054 students), of which ANTONIO PAOLI PONCE is one.

JAIME L. DREW is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 49%: 153 students in 2018 compared to 78 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 8.7:1 in 2025.

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