BLANCA MALARET

BLANCA MALARET operates as a roomy K-5 school in SABANA GRANDE, Puerto Rico, run under PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Current enrollment sits at 439 students spanning grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 89% larger than the state mean of about 232.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION runs 856 schools in total, collectively educating 236,079 students. BLANCA MALARET is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, BLANCA MALARET records that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That composition is broadly in line with Sabana Grande Municipio as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.2:1. The state averages around 9.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 90% of students at BLANCA MALARET qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Sabana Grande Municipio put the typical household earns roughly $22,065 per year and census figures put the poverty rate at about 43%. In all, Sabana Grande Municipio runs 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,707 students), of which BLANCA MALARET is one.

Nearest neighbor: JOSE R. GAZTAMBIDE, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around BLANCA MALARET.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 13%: 388 students in 2018 compared to 439 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.