JOSE C. ROSARIO

ISABELA, Puerto Rico, is home to JOSE C. ROSARIO, a high-enrollment elementary school. It enrolls 453 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are kindergarten through 8. That is 95% bigger than the average of about 232 students for elementary schools in Puerto Rico.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION has 856 schools; together they serve 236,079 students.

Roughly 99% of students at JOSE C. ROSARIO are Hispanic. Isabela Municipio residents are about 98% Hispanic, a similar share. The diversity index for JOSE C. ROSARIO is 1%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

With 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 11.6:1. The average for elementary schools in Puerto Rico is 9.2:1, so this school has more students per teacher. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at JOSE C. ROSARIO, 90% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 87% average for public schools in Isabela Municipio.

Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Isabela Municipio show that the median household earns about $23,266 a year and the poverty rate is about 39%. Across Isabela Municipio, 9 public schools serve about 3,185 students.

A public school less than a tenth of a mile away, DR. HERIBERTO DOMENECH, is the closest to JOSE C. ROSARIO. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of JOSE C. ROSARIO.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Mid-size: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Over 4 years, enrollment decreased by 132 students, from 585 to 453. Federal data show the ratio falling from 13.6:1 to 11.6:1.

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