ELEMENTAL EMERITA LEON

As a small K-5 school in CAYEY, Puerto Rico, ELEMENTAL EMERITA LEON educates 154 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. By comparison, Puerto Rico's public schools average about 232 students each, so ELEMENTAL EMERITA LEON sits 34% below that benchmark.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION runs 856 schools in total, collectively educating 236,079 students. ELEMENTAL EMERITA LEON is one of those campuses.

On demographics, ELEMENTAL EMERITA LEON records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%). That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 7.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 9.2:1, putting ELEMENTAL EMERITA LEON tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the broader community, census data for Cayey Municipio shows the typical household earns roughly $30,129 per year and the poverty rate sits near 33%. In all, Cayey Municipio runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,598 students), of which ELEMENTAL EMERITA LEON is one.

Nearest neighbor: EMERITA LEON, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ELEMENTAL EMERITA LEON has fell 53%, going from 326 students in 2018 to 154 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 7.7:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.