JOSE GAUTIER BENITEZ CAGUAS

Located at CALLE GAUTIER BENITEZ ESQ. CRISTOBAL COLON, in CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, JOSE GAUTIER BENITEZ CAGUAS is a mid-sized high school that instructs 498 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. By comparison, Puerto Rico's public schools average about 389 students each, so JOSE GAUTIER BENITEZ CAGUAS sits 28% above that benchmark.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION comprises 856 schools with combined enrollment of 236,079 students; JOSE GAUTIER BENITEZ CAGUAS is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, JOSE GAUTIER BENITEZ CAGUAS shows that nearly all students (99%) are Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 10.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 85% 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, census data for Caguas Municipio shows median household earnings sit near $31,379 and roughly 34% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Caguas Municipio runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,277 students), of which JOSE GAUTIER BENITEZ CAGUAS is one.

LUIS RAMOS GONZALEZ is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JOSE GAUTIER BENITEZ CAGUAS.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 491 students in 2018 compared to 498 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

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