LA ESPERANZA

LA ESPERANZA, a modestly sized K-12 campus in SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, one of the schools within PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, educates 125 students, covering grades 1 through 12. By comparison, Puerto Rico's public schools average about 286 students each, so LA ESPERANZA sits 56% smaller than that benchmark.

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

Demographically, LA ESPERANZA lists that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That composition is broadly in line with San Juan Municipio as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, LA ESPERANZA reports 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 3.1:1. The state averages around 8.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below San Juan Municipio's rate of about 87%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (San Juan Municipio) logs that the typical household earns roughly $27,992 per year and the poverty rate sits near 36%. Across San Juan Municipio's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,154 students), LA ESPERANZA is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is NEMESIO R. CANALES II, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

LA ESPERANZA operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. LA ESPERANZA's enrollment has fell 47% since 2018, when it stood at 234 (now 125). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 4.7:1 in 2018 to 3.1:1 today.

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