EUGENIO NAZARIO SOTO

EUGENIO NAZARIO SOTO operates as a tight-knit elementary school in COAMO, Puerto Rico, overseen by PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Current enrollment sits at 162 students spanning grades K through 8. That puts it 30% smaller than the typical public school in Puerto Rico, which averages around 232 students.

Within PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, which oversees 856 schools and 236,079 students, EUGENIO NAZARIO SOTO is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, EUGENIO NAZARIO SOTO logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%). That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 9.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Coamo Municipio indicate the typical household earns roughly $22,045 per year and the poverty rate sits near 44%. EUGENIO NAZARIO SOTO is one of 13 public schools in Coamo Municipio (combined enrollment of about 3,528 students).

BENIGNA INES CARATINI ESPARRA is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at EUGENIO NAZARIO SOTO has shrank 15%, going from 191 students in 2018 to 162 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 7.7:1 today.

On the community side, members of the EUGENIO NAZARIO SOTO community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.