MANUEL FEBRES GONZALEZ

MANUEL FEBRES GONZALEZ, located in CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, is a low-enrollment middle school. The school had 180 students in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. Average enrollment for middle schools in Puerto Rico is about 242, so this school runs 26% smaller than that.

The district, PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, has 236,079 students enrolled across 856 schools.

The student body at MANUEL FEBRES GONZALEZ is 99% Hispanic. That is close to the 99% Hispanic share among all Carolina Municipio residents. The school's diversity index is 1%, meaning two students picked at random have a 1% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

The count of teachers at MANUEL FEBRES GONZALEZ is 18 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 10.0:1. For comparison, middle schools in Puerto Rico average 9.9:1. Around 90% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. That tracks the 88% average for public schools in Carolina Municipio.

Carolina Municipio has about 152,204 residents, and the median household income is $36,958 and about 25% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides MANUEL FEBRES GONZALEZ, Carolina Municipio has 27 other public schools.

GILBERTO CONCEPCION DE GRACIA is the nearest neighboring public school, less than a tenth of a mile away. Within five miles of MANUEL FEBRES GONZALEZ, there are at least 8 other public schools.

NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Over 4 years, MANUEL FEBRES GONZALEZ's enrollment declined 38%, to 180. By 2024-25, the school had 10.0 students per teacher, compared with 16.1 in 2020-21.

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