DRA. MARIA CADILLA DE MARTINEZ

DRA. MARIA CADILLA DE MARTINEZ is a high school of mid-tier scale in ARECIBO, Puerto Rico, one of the schools within PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, works with 340 students in grades 9 through 12.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION comprises 856 schools with combined enrollment of 236,079 students; DRA. MARIA CADILLA DE MARTINEZ is among them.

On demographics, DRA. MARIA CADILLA DE MARTINEZ shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%). That composition is broadly in line with Arecibo Municipio as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, DRA. MARIA CADILLA DE MARTINEZ has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.2:1, putting DRA. MARIA CADILLA DE MARTINEZ tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Zooming out to the county, 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%. In all, Arecibo Municipio runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,627 students), of which DRA. MARIA CADILLA DE MARTINEZ is one.

The closest other public school is PARADISO COLLEGE PREPARATORY - ALIANZA, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 39%: 561 students in 2018 compared to 340 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

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