EUGENIO LE COMPTE BENITEZ

Located at CARR 132 VILLA FINAL 1150, in PONCE, Puerto Rico, EUGENIO LE COMPTE BENITEZ is a middle-of-the-pack 6-8 campus that caters to 279 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION comprises 856 schools with combined enrollment of 236,079 students; EUGENIO LE COMPTE BENITEZ is among them.

On the student-mix side, EUGENIO LE COMPTE BENITEZ shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%). That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, EUGENIO LE COMPTE BENITEZ has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Across the wider county, Ponce Municipio reports that the typical household earns roughly $19,877 per year and census figures put the poverty rate at about 46%. In all, Ponce Municipio runs 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,054 students), of which EUGENIO LE COMPTE BENITEZ is one.

The closest other public school is JULIO ALVARADO TRICOCHE, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EUGENIO LE COMPTE BENITEZ.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 38%: 451 students in 2018 compared to 279 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.