JAIME CASTANER

JAIME CASTANER is a very small elementary school in YAUCO, Puerto Rico, under PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. It teaches 64 students in kindergarten through 8. By comparison, elementary schools in Puerto Rico enroll about 232 students on average.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION is made up of 856 schools with 236,079 students in all.

Hispanic students are 100% of those enrolled at JAIME CASTANER. That is in line with Yauco Municipio, where about 99% of residents are Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 0, compared with 70 nationally.

A staff of 16 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 4.0:1. The average for elementary schools in Puerto Rico, 9.2:1, is higher. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 89%. Public schools in Yauco Municipio average a similar 88%.

Yauco Municipio is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $24,255 and roughly 38% of residents are in poverty. There are 14 public schools in the county, enrolling about 3,274, JAIME CASTANER among them.

JAIME CASTANER's nearest public school is ALMACIGO ALTO II (about 3.3 miles). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8.

Federal data place JAIME CASTANER in the Suburb: Small locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.

Federal records list enrollment at JAIME CASTANER as 123 in 2020-21 and 64 in 2024-25. A change that size can reflect a shift in the grades the school serves as well as a change in students. Students per teacher dropped from 7.7 in 2020-21 to 4.0 in 2024-25.

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