JOSE PAGAN DE JESUS

JOSE PAGAN DE JESUS operates as a sprawling primary school in VEGA ALTA, Puerto Rico, one of the schools within PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Current enrollment sits at 360 students spanning grades K through 8. By comparison, Puerto Rico's public schools average about 232 students each, so JOSE PAGAN DE JESUS sits 55% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 856 schools in PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (236,079 students total), JOSE PAGAN DE JESUS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, JOSE PAGAN DE JESUS logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%). That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 9.2:1, putting JOSE PAGAN DE JESUS higher than the state norm the norm. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Vega Alta Municipio put median household income runs about $25,538 and census figures put the poverty rate at about 39%. Across Vega Alta Municipio's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,887 students), JOSE PAGAN DE JESUS is one campus in the mix.

SUPERIOR ILEANA DE GRACIA is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JOSE PAGAN DE JESUS.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. JOSE PAGAN DE JESUS's enrollment has edged down 26% since 2018, when it stood at 484 (now 360). Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.

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