EMERITA LEON

EMERITA LEON operates as a modestly sized elementary-level community in CAYEY, Puerto Rico, one of the schools within PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Current enrollment sits at 194 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.

EMERITA LEON is one of 856 schools operated by PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, a district that works with 236,079 students overall.

On the student-mix side, EMERITA LEON reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (97%). The remainder breaks down as 3% White. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, EMERITA LEON has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 9.2:1 average. Roughly 58% of students at EMERITA LEON qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cayey Municipio runs at roughly 87%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Cayey Municipio) logs that median household earnings sit near $30,129 and roughly 33% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cayey Municipio's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,598 students), EMERITA LEON is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ELEMENTAL EMERITA LEON, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EMERITA LEON.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.