MANUEL FERNANDEZ JUNCOS

MANUEL FERNANDEZ JUNCOS is a large elementary school in JUANA DIAZ, Puerto Rico, administered by PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Total enrollment is 395 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in Puerto Rico enroll about 232 students on average.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION is made up of 856 schools with 236,079 students in all.

Hispanic students are 100% of those enrolled at MANUEL FERNANDEZ JUNCOS. That is in line with Juana Díaz Municipio, where about 100% of residents are Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 0%.

Its staff includes 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 9.4 students per teacher. It is about the same as the 9.2:1 average for elementary schools in Puerto Rico. MANUEL FERNANDEZ JUNCOS has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 83%.

For the population of Juana Díaz Municipio, the median household earns about $24,852 a year and roughly 40% of residents are in poverty. Across Juana Díaz Municipio, 13 public schools serve about 3,377 students.

Of the public schools around it, MANUEL FERNANDEZ JUNCOS is closest to RUTHFORD B. HAYES, less than a tenth of a mile away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools.

MANUEL FERNANDEZ JUNCOS is coded as Suburb: Small in federal locale data.

The 2020-21 count was 276 students and the 2024-25 count was 395. A difference that large may reflect a change in which grades the school serves. By 2024-25, the school had 9.4 students per teacher, compared with 10.6 in 2020-21.

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