DOMINGO APONTE COLLAZO

DOMINGO APONTE COLLAZO operates as a heavily attended senior high in LARES, Puerto Rico, part of PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Current enrollment sits at 732 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 88% larger than the state mean of about 389.

Across the 856 schools in PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (236,079 students total), DOMINGO APONTE COLLAZO accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, DOMINGO APONTE COLLAZO shows that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, DOMINGO APONTE COLLAZO has 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.1:1. The state averages around 10.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Lares Municipio indicate median household earnings sit near $18,917 and census figures put the poverty rate at about 54%. In all, Lares Municipio runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,739 students), of which DOMINGO APONTE COLLAZO is one.

RAMON DE JESUS SIERRA is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. DOMINGO APONTE COLLAZO's enrollment has contracted 21% since 2018, when it stood at 923 (now 732). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.