FRANCISCO MATIAS LUGO

FRANCISCO MATIAS LUGO is a substantial elementary campus in CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, run under PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. The school teaches 404 students in grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 74% above the state mean of about 232.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION runs 856 schools in total, collectively educating 236,079 students. FRANCISCO MATIAS LUGO is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, FRANCISCO MATIAS LUGO lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (99%). That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.8:1. The state averages about 9.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Across the wider county, Carolina Municipio reports that the typical household earns roughly $36,958 per year and the poverty rate sits near 25%. In all, Carolina Municipio runs 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,081 students), of which FRANCISCO MATIAS LUGO is one.

The closest other public school is MARIA TERESA SERRANO, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FRANCISCO MATIAS LUGO.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 34%: 611 students in 2018 compared to 404 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 in 2025.

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