HECTOR HERNANDEZ ARANA

HECTOR HERNANDEZ ARANA operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in LARES, Puerto Rico, part of PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Current enrollment sits at 347 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Puerto Rico's public schools average about 232 students each, so HECTOR HERNANDEZ ARANA sits 50% above that benchmark.

HECTOR HERNANDEZ ARANA is one of 856 schools operated by PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, a district that caters to 236,079 students overall.

On the student-mix side, HECTOR HERNANDEZ ARANA records that nearly all students (100%) are Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 9.2:1 average. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the area at large, Lares Municipio reports that the typical household earns roughly $18,917 per year and the poverty rate sits near 54%. Across Lares Municipio's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,739 students), HECTOR HERNANDEZ ARANA is one campus in the mix.

DANIEL VELEZ SOTO is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

HECTOR HERNANDEZ ARANA operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HECTOR HERNANDEZ ARANA has shrank 12%, going from 396 students in 2018 to 347 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 10.2:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

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