BONIFACIO ALVARADO

Set in OROCOVIS, Puerto Rico, BONIFACIO ALVARADO is a modestly sized K-5 school, one of the schools within PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. It instructs 141 students across grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 39% smaller than the state mean of about 232.

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

Demographically, BONIFACIO ALVARADO logs that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That composition is broadly in line with Orocovis Municipio as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 9.2:1 average. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the surrounding community, Orocovis Municipio reports that the typical household earns roughly $20,302 per year and census figures put the poverty rate at about 48%. Across Orocovis Municipio's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,292 students), BONIFACIO ALVARADO is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ANGEL RAFAEL DIAZ COLON, roughly 2.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. BONIFACIO ALVARADO's enrollment has declined 28% since 2018, when it stood at 195 (now 141). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 today.

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