FEDERICO DEGETAU ARECIBO

FEDERICO DEGETAU ARECIBO is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary-level communitys in ARECIBO, Puerto Rico, part of PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, with 316 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Puerto Rico's public schools average about 232 students each, so FEDERICO DEGETAU ARECIBO sits 36% above that benchmark.

FEDERICO DEGETAU ARECIBO is one of 856 schools operated by PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, a district that enrolls 236,079 students overall.

On the student-mix side, FEDERICO DEGETAU ARECIBO records that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That composition is broadly in line with Arecibo Municipio as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 9.2:1, putting FEDERICO DEGETAU ARECIBO tighter than the state norm the norm. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Arecibo Municipio indicate median household earnings sit near $23,635 and census figures put the poverty rate at about 38%. In all, Arecibo Municipio runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,627 students), of which FEDERICO DEGETAU ARECIBO is one.

SUPERIOR VOCACIONAL DE ARECIBO is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FEDERICO DEGETAU ARECIBO.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. FEDERICO DEGETAU ARECIBO's enrollment has fell 50% since 2018, when it stood at 630 (now 316). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 8.1:1 today.

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