EL FARALLON

Located at CARR 152 KM 7 HM 6 BO QUEBRADILLAS, in BARRANQUITAS, Puerto Rico, EL FARALLON is a rural-scale primary school that educates 80 students (grades K through 5), operated by PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. By comparison, Puerto Rico's public schools average about 232 students each, so EL FARALLON sits 66% smaller than that benchmark.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION comprises 856 schools with combined enrollment of 236,079 students; EL FARALLON is among them.

Demographically, EL FARALLON logs that nearly all students (99%) are Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 9.2:1 average. Roughly 86% of students at EL FARALLON qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Barranquitas Municipio indicate median household earnings sit near $23,407 and the poverty rate sits near 48%. In all, Barranquitas Municipio runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,350 students), of which EL FARALLON is one.

The closest other public school is INTERMEDIA FRANCISCO (PACO) LOPEZ LOPEZ, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

EL FARALLON operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at EL FARALLON has ticked down 55%, going from 178 students in 2018 to 80 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 8.0:1 in 2025.

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