INTERMEDIA TALLABOA ALTA

INTERMEDIA TALLABOA ALTA, a rural-scale middle-grades school in PENUELAS, Puerto Rico, run under PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, works with 85 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 65% below the typical public school in Puerto Rico, which averages around 242 students.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION runs 856 schools in total, collectively educating 236,079 students. INTERMEDIA TALLABOA ALTA is one of those campuses.

On demographics, INTERMEDIA TALLABOA ALTA logs that nearly all students (100%) are Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, INTERMEDIA TALLABOA ALTA logs 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Around the school, census data for Peñuelas Municipio shows the typical household earns roughly $22,697 per year and roughly 49% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Peñuelas Municipio runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,784 students), of which INTERMEDIA TALLABOA ALTA is one.

MIGUEL GONZALEZ BAUZA is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at INTERMEDIA TALLABOA ALTA has ticked down 64%, going from 235 students in 2018 to 85 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.