HERMINIA GARCIA

HERMINIA GARCIA is a primary school of big scale in PONCE, Puerto Rico, operated by PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, enrolling 467 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Puerto Rico's public schools average about 232 students each, so HERMINIA GARCIA sits 101% above that benchmark.

Across the 856 schools in PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (236,079 students total), HERMINIA GARCIA accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, HERMINIA GARCIA records that nearly all students (93%) are Hispanic. The remainder consists of 7% White.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 9.2:1 average. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Ponce Municipio indicate the typical household earns roughly $19,877 per year and the poverty rate sits near 46%. In all, Ponce Municipio runs 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,054 students), of which HERMINIA GARCIA is one.

JARDINES DE PONCE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

HERMINIA GARCIA operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HERMINIA GARCIA has ticked down 12%, going from 533 students in 2018 to 467 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked up from 0% to 7%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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