JUANA COLON

JUANA COLON, a close-knit high school in COMERIO, Puerto Rico, overseen by PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, serves 279 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 28% smaller than the state mean of about 389.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION comprises 856 schools with combined enrollment of 236,079 students; JUANA COLON is among them.

Demographically, JUANA COLON lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (99%). That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.2:1 average. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Comerío Municipio) logs that median household income runs about $17,134 and census figures put the poverty rate at about 49%. Across Comerío Municipio's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,917 students), JUANA COLON is one campus in the mix.

INES MARIA MENDOZA DE MUNOZ MARIN is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. JUANA COLON's enrollment has fell 43% since 2018, when it stood at 488 (now 279). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 today.

On this page, members of the JUANA COLON community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.