JULIO LEBRON SOTO

JULIO LEBRON SOTO is a low-enrollment elementary campus in LARES, Puerto Rico, operated by PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. The school hosts 172 students in grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 26% smaller than the state mean of about 232.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION runs 856 schools in total, collectively educating 236,079 students. JULIO LEBRON SOTO is one of those campuses.

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

On the income-and-resources front, JULIO LEBRON SOTO logs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.6:1. The state averages about 9.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 84% of students at JULIO LEBRON SOTO qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the broader community, census data for Lares Municipio shows median household income runs about $18,917 and census figures put the poverty rate at about 54%. Across Lares Municipio's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,739 students), JULIO LEBRON SOTO is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: GABRIELA MISTRAL LARES, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around JULIO LEBRON SOTO.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 27%: 235 students in 2018 compared to 172 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.

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