CAMILO VALLES MATIENZO

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in LUQUILLO, Puerto Rico, CAMILO VALLES MATIENZO hosts 258 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

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

On the student-mix side, CAMILO VALLES MATIENZO records that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 9.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Luquillo Municipio) records that the typical household earns roughly $24,225 per year and roughly 40% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Luquillo Municipio runs 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,194 students), of which CAMILO VALLES MATIENZO is one.

RAFAEL N. COCA is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CAMILO VALLES MATIENZO.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 37%: 409 students in 2018 compared to 258 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 8.9:1 in 2025.

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