ELEMENTAL NUEVA DE SAN JUAN

ELEMENTAL NUEVA DE SAN JUAN is an elementary school of cozy scale in SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, operated by PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, teacheing 164 students in grades K through 8. That puts it 29% leaner than the typical public school in Puerto Rico, which averages around 232 students.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION comprises 856 schools with combined enrollment of 236,079 students; ELEMENTAL NUEVA DE SAN JUAN is among them.

Demographically, ELEMENTAL NUEVA DE SAN JUAN records that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Compared to San Juan Municipio overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 9.2:1 average. Roughly 87% of students at ELEMENTAL NUEVA DE SAN JUAN qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Across the wider county, census data for San Juan Municipio shows median household earnings sit near $27,992 and the poverty rate sits near 36%. Across San Juan Municipio's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,154 students), ELEMENTAL NUEVA DE SAN JUAN is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: VILLA GRANADA, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ELEMENTAL NUEVA DE SAN JUAN has shrank 34%, going from 250 students in 2018 to 164 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 9.6:1 in 2018 to 7.8:1 in 2025.

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