DR. CAYETANO COLL Y TOSTE

DR. CAYETANO COLL Y TOSTE is a large elementary school in ARECIBO, Puerto Rico, part of PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. The school works with 471 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, Puerto Rico's public schools average about 232 students each, so DR. CAYETANO COLL Y TOSTE sits 103% bigger than that benchmark.

Within PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, which oversees 856 schools and 236,079 students, DR. CAYETANO COLL Y TOSTE is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, DR. CAYETANO COLL Y TOSTE logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (99%). That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, DR. CAYETANO COLL Y TOSTE has 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.0:1. The state averages around 9.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 90% of students at DR. CAYETANO COLL Y TOSTE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Arecibo Municipio) records that median household earnings sit near $23,635 and roughly 38% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Arecibo Municipio runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,627 students), of which DR. CAYETANO COLL Y TOSTE is one.

Nearest neighbor: FACTOR 5, around 1.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. DR. CAYETANO COLL Y TOSTE's enrollment has shrank 4% since 2018, when it stood at 490 (now 471). Class-load math has tightened: from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 8.0:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.