FRANCISCO ZAYAS SANTANA

FRANCISCO ZAYAS SANTANA is an intermediate school of medium-sized scale in VILLALBA, Puerto Rico, one of the schools within PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, instructing 295 students in grades 6 through 9. By comparison, Puerto Rico's public schools average about 242 students each, so FRANCISCO ZAYAS SANTANA sits 22% larger than that benchmark.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION comprises 856 schools with combined enrollment of 236,079 students; FRANCISCO ZAYAS SANTANA is among them.

On demographics, FRANCISCO ZAYAS SANTANA shows that nearly all students (100%) are Hispanic. Compared to Villalba Municipio overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 92% of students at FRANCISCO ZAYAS SANTANA qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Villalba Municipio put median household income runs about $26,286 and roughly 35% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Villalba Municipio runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,828 students), of which FRANCISCO ZAYAS SANTANA is one.

NORMA I. TORRES COLON is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 26%: 399 students in 2018 compared to 295 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 in 2025.

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