BERNARDO HUYKE

BERNARDO HUYKE is one of the mid-tier primary schools in BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, operated by PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, with 254 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, BERNARDO HUYKE shows that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Compared to Bayamón Municipio overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 9.2:1 average. Roughly 77% of students at BERNARDO HUYKE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Bayamón Municipio runs at roughly 88%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, Bayamón Municipio reports that the typical household earns roughly $31,354 per year and census figures put the poverty rate at about 31%. BERNARDO HUYKE is one of 43 public schools in Bayamón Municipio (combined enrollment of about 12,731 students).

Nearest neighbor: JESUS SANCHEZ ERAZO, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. BERNARDO HUYKE's enrollment has declined 25% since 2018, when it stood at 340 (now 254). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

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