APOLO SAN ANTONIO

Set in VEGA ALTA, Puerto Rico, APOLO SAN ANTONIO is a mid-sized middle school, run under PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. It hosts 358 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 48% bigger than the typical public school in Puerto Rico, which averages around 242 students.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION comprises 856 schools with combined enrollment of 236,079 students; APOLO SAN ANTONIO is among them.

On demographics, APOLO SAN ANTONIO records that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 9.9:1 average. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Vega Alta Municipio indicate the typical household earns roughly $25,538 per year and census figures put the poverty rate at about 39%. Across Vega Alta Municipio's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,887 students), APOLO SAN ANTONIO is one campus in the mix.

ELEMENTAL URBANA DE VEGA ALTA is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

APOLO SAN ANTONIO operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. APOLO SAN ANTONIO's enrollment has contracted 44% since 2018, when it stood at 636 (now 358). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 8.1:1 today.

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