BENIGNA INES CARATINI ESPARRA

BENIGNA INES CARATINI ESPARRA is a very small elementary school in COAMO, Puerto Rico, under PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Total enrollment is 75 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 4. By comparison, elementary schools in Puerto Rico enroll about 232 students on average.

The 856 schools of PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, including BENIGNA INES CARATINI ESPARRA, enroll 236,079 students.

At BENIGNA INES CARATINI ESPARRA, 100% of students are Hispanic. Census estimates put Coamo Municipio at about 100% Hispanic, close to the school's figure. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, BENIGNA INES CARATINI ESPARRA scores 0%.

Staffing at BENIGNA INES CARATINI ESPARRA comes to 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 9.4:1. That is in line with the 9.2:1 average for elementary schools in Puerto Rico. BENIGNA INES CARATINI ESPARRA counts 55% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Coamo Municipio report 88%.

In Coamo Municipio, the median household earns about $22,045 a year and the share of residents below the poverty line is 44%. BENIGNA INES CARATINI ESPARRA shares Coamo Municipio with 12 other public schools.

Among nearby public schools, EUGENIO NAZARIO SOTO is closest at about 1.6 miles. BENIGNA INES CARATINI ESPARRA is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Town: Fringe: in a town close to an urbanized area.

Federal records list enrollment at BENIGNA INES CARATINI ESPARRA as 154 in 2017-18 and 75 in 2024-25. A change that size can reflect a shift in the grades the school serves as well as a change in students.

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