LENA M. FRANCESCHI IRIZARRY

LENA M. FRANCESCHI IRIZARRY is a cozy elementary school in YAUCO, Puerto Rico, one of the schools within PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. The school works with 94 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, Puerto Rico's public schools average about 232 students each, so LENA M. FRANCESCHI IRIZARRY sits 59% below that benchmark.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION comprises 856 schools with combined enrollment of 236,079 students; LENA M. FRANCESCHI IRIZARRY is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LENA M. FRANCESCHI IRIZARRY records that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Compared to Maricao Municipio overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, LENA M. FRANCESCHI IRIZARRY lists 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 6.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 9.2:1, putting LENA M. FRANCESCHI IRIZARRY tighter than the state norm the norm. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Maricao Municipio indicate the typical household earns roughly $21,302 per year and census figures put the poverty rate at about 50%. LENA M. FRANCESCHI IRIZARRY is one of 5 public schools in Maricao Municipio (combined enrollment of about 541 students).

INDIERA FRIA is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 24%: 76 students in 2018 compared to 94 in 2025.

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