DR. JOSE CELSO BARBOSA PONCE

DR. JOSE CELSO BARBOSA PONCE operates as a modestly sized K-5 school in PONCE, Puerto Rico, one of the schools within PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Current enrollment sits at 106 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 54% leaner than the state mean of about 232.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION runs 856 schools in total, collectively educating 236,079 students. DR. JOSE CELSO BARBOSA PONCE is one of those campuses.

On demographics, DR. JOSE CELSO BARBOSA PONCE logs that nearly all students (91%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 9% White. That is considerably less Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 99%.

On the resource side, On paper, DR. JOSE CELSO BARBOSA PONCE has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 80% of students at DR. JOSE CELSO BARBOSA PONCE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Ponce Municipio indicate the typical household earns roughly $19,877 per year and census figures put the poverty rate at about 46%. DR. JOSE CELSO BARBOSA PONCE is one of 41 public schools in Ponce Municipio (combined enrollment of about 10,054 students).

Nearest neighbor: ANTONIO PAOLI PONCE, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DR. JOSE CELSO BARBOSA PONCE has ticked down 23%, going from 137 students in 2018 to 106 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment decreased from 100% to 91% over that span.

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