BERNARDO GONZALEZ COLON

BERNARDO GONZALEZ COLON is a mid-sized elementary school in UTUADO, Puerto Rico, part of PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. The school caters to 230 students in grades K through 8.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION comprises 856 schools with combined enrollment of 236,079 students; BERNARDO GONZALEZ COLON is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BERNARDO GONZALEZ COLON shows that nearly all students (100%) are Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Utuado Municipio as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 9.2:1 average. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the area at large, Utuado Municipio reports that the typical household earns roughly $20,800 per year and the poverty rate sits near 46%. BERNARDO GONZALEZ COLON is one of 12 public schools in Utuado Municipio (combined enrollment of about 2,495 students).

Nearest neighbor: MARIA LIBERTAD GOMEZ, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BERNARDO GONZALEZ COLON.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BERNARDO GONZALEZ COLON has ticked down 37%, going from 365 students in 2018 to 230 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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