CARMEN GOMEZ TEJERA BAYAMON

As a medium-sized elementary campus in BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, CARMEN GOMEZ TEJERA BAYAMON teaches 309 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Enrollment runs roughly 33% larger than the state mean of about 232.

Across the 856 schools in PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (236,079 students total), CARMEN GOMEZ TEJERA BAYAMON accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, CARMEN GOMEZ TEJERA BAYAMON shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%). That composition is broadly in line with Bayamón Municipio as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 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. Roughly 87% of students at CARMEN GOMEZ TEJERA BAYAMON qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Bayamón Municipio indicate the typical household earns roughly $31,354 per year and the poverty rate sits near 31%. In all, Bayamón Municipio runs 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,731 students), of which CARMEN GOMEZ TEJERA BAYAMON is one.

LUIS PALES MATOS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CARMEN GOMEZ TEJERA BAYAMON.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CARMEN GOMEZ TEJERA BAYAMON has decreased 18%, going from 377 students in 2018 to 309 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 9.4:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 today.

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