JOSE R. BARRERAS

Located at CARR 159 KM 5 HM 6, in MOROVIS, Puerto Rico, JOSE R. BARRERAS is an average-sized elementary-level community that serves 292 students (grades pre-K through 8), one of the schools within PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. By comparison, Puerto Rico's public schools average about 232 students each, so JOSE R. BARRERAS sits 26% larger than that benchmark.

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

Looking at the student body, JOSE R. BARRERAS lists that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, JOSE R. BARRERAS reports 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.3:1. The state averages around 9.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Morovis Municipio indicate median household earnings sit near $25,003 and the poverty rate sits near 41%. In all, Morovis Municipio runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,729 students), of which JOSE R. BARRERAS is one.

The closest other public school is FRANCISCO RIVERA CLAUDIO, roughly 2.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JOSE R. BARRERAS.

JOSE R. BARRERAS operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JOSE R. BARRERAS has ticked down 14%, going from 341 students in 2018 to 292 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 today.

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