CARMEN GOMEZ TEJERA SAN JUAN

CARMEN GOMEZ TEJERA SAN JUAN operates as a compact elementary school in SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, run under PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Current enrollment sits at 168 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Puerto Rico's public schools average about 232 students each, so CARMEN GOMEZ TEJERA SAN JUAN sits 28% smaller than that benchmark.

Within PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, which oversees 856 schools and 236,079 students, CARMEN GOMEZ TEJERA SAN JUAN is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CARMEN GOMEZ TEJERA SAN JUAN logs that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Compared to San Juan Municipio overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, CARMEN GOMEZ TEJERA SAN JUAN lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 6.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 9.2:1 average. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Around the school, San Juan Municipio reports that the typical household earns roughly $27,992 per year and the poverty rate sits near 36%. In all, San Juan Municipio runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,154 students), of which CARMEN GOMEZ TEJERA SAN JUAN is one.

LEAP STEAM+E ACADEMY OF SAN JUAN - ALIANZA is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 23%: 219 students in 2018 compared to 168 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 7.3:1 in 2018 to 6.2:1 in 2025.

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