LORENZO VIZCARRONDO

LORENZO VIZCARRONDO is one of the very small high schools in CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, operated by PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, with 118 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 70% smaller than the typical public school in Puerto Rico, which averages around 389 students.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, LORENZO VIZCARRONDO reports that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.2:1 average. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Carolina Municipio put median household earnings sit near $36,958 and the poverty rate sits near 25%. LORENZO VIZCARRONDO is one of 28 public schools in Carolina Municipio (combined enrollment of about 8,081 students).

The closest other public school is JOSE SEVERO QUINONES, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LORENZO VIZCARRONDO.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LORENZO VIZCARRONDO has edged down 83%, going from 706 students in 2018 to 118 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 23.5:1 in 2018 to 6.6:1 today.

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