ELPIDIO H. RIVERA

ELPIDIO H. RIVERA is an elementary school of sizable scale in MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico, part of PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, teacheing 408 students in grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Puerto Rico's public schools average about 232 students each, so ELPIDIO H. RIVERA sits 76% larger than that benchmark.

Within PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, which oversees 856 schools and 236,079 students, ELPIDIO H. RIVERA is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ELPIDIO H. RIVERA logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%). That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, ELPIDIO H. RIVERA has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.7:1. The state averages around 9.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 88% of students at ELPIDIO H. RIVERA qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Mayagüez Municipio put median household income runs about $18,295 and census figures put the poverty rate at about 46%. ELPIDIO H. RIVERA is one of 16 public schools in Mayagüez Municipio (combined enrollment of about 4,204 students).

The closest other public school is LUIS MUNOZ RIVERA MAYAGUEZ, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ELPIDIO H. RIVERA.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. ELPIDIO H. RIVERA's enrollment has climbed 14% since 2018, when it stood at 358 (now 408). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for ELPIDIO H. RIVERA typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.