JOSE M ESPADA ZAYAS

Set in COAMO, Puerto Rico, JOSE M ESPADA ZAYAS is an intimate K-5 school, overseen by PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. It hosts 181 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Puerto Rico's public schools average about 232 students each, so JOSE M ESPADA ZAYAS sits 22% smaller than that benchmark.

JOSE M ESPADA ZAYAS is one of 856 schools operated by PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, a district that teaches 236,079 students overall.

In terms of who attends, JOSE M ESPADA ZAYAS lists that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, JOSE M ESPADA ZAYAS reports 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 9.2:1 average. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Coamo Municipio put the typical household earns roughly $22,045 per year and census figures put the poverty rate at about 44%. Across Coamo Municipio's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,528 students), JOSE M ESPADA ZAYAS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: RAMON JOSE DAVILA, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JOSE M ESPADA ZAYAS.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. JOSE M ESPADA ZAYAS's enrollment has edged down 32% since 2018, when it stood at 267 (now 181). Class-load math has tightened: from 10.3:1 in 2018 to 7.9:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the JOSE M ESPADA ZAYAS community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.