CLAUDIO FERRER COTTO

Set in COMERIO, Puerto Rico, CLAUDIO FERRER COTTO is an intimate K-5 school, part of PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. It works with 123 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 232 students per school, that is 47% below typical.

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

On the student-mix side, CLAUDIO FERRER COTTO logs that 99% 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, The school lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 6.2:1. The state averages around 9.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Across the wider county, Comerío Municipio reports that the typical household earns roughly $17,134 per year and census figures put the poverty rate at about 49%. CLAUDIO FERRER COTTO is one of 9 public schools in Comerío Municipio (combined enrollment of about 1,917 students).

The closest other public school is MANUEL CRUZ MACEIRA - BEISBOL, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 30%: 175 students in 2018 compared to 123 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 8.3:1 in 2018 to 6.2:1 today.

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