COTTO ANEXO

Set in ARECIBO, Puerto Rico, COTTO ANEXO is a rural-scale all-grades campus, part of PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. It instructs 35 students across grades K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 88% smaller than the state mean of about 286.

Within PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, which oversees 856 schools and 236,079 students, COTTO ANEXO is one campus in the system.

Demographically, COTTO ANEXO shows that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That composition is broadly in line with Arecibo Municipio as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 2.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 8.5:1 average. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Arecibo Municipio's rate of about 88%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Arecibo Municipio put the typical household earns roughly $23,635 per year and census figures put the poverty rate at about 38%. Across Arecibo Municipio's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,627 students), COTTO ANEXO is one campus in the mix.

ABELARDO MARTINEZ OTERO is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

COTTO ANEXO operates from an urban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. COTTO ANEXO's enrollment has rose 59% since 2018, when it stood at 22 (now 35).

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