JOSE NEVAREZ LOPEZ

Set in TOA BAJA, Puerto Rico, JOSE NEVAREZ LOPEZ is a cozy elementary-level community, part of PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. It enrolls 130 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Puerto Rico's public schools average about 232 students each, so JOSE NEVAREZ LOPEZ sits 44% leaner than that benchmark.

Within PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, which oversees 856 schools and 236,079 students, JOSE NEVAREZ LOPEZ is one campus in the system.

Demographically, JOSE NEVAREZ LOPEZ logs that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Compared to Toa Baja Municipio overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, JOSE NEVAREZ LOPEZ records 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 9.2:1, putting JOSE NEVAREZ LOPEZ tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Toa Baja Municipio's rate of about 87%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Toa Baja Municipio indicate the typical household earns roughly $32,017 per year and census figures put the poverty rate at about 30%. In all, Toa Baja Municipio runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,084 students), of which JOSE NEVAREZ LOPEZ is one.

Nearest neighbor: CRISTOBAL SANTANA MELECIO, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 25%: 174 students in 2018 compared to 130 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 8.7:1 in 2018 to 7.7:1 in 2025.

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