MANUEL GONZALEZ PATO

As a tight-knit junior high in PONCE, Puerto Rico, MANUEL GONZALEZ PATO works with 168 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. That puts it 31% below the typical public school in Puerto Rico, which averages around 242 students.

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

On demographics, MANUEL GONZALEZ PATO shows that 97% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder is composed of 3% White. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, MANUEL GONZALEZ PATO lists 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Ponce Municipio put median household earnings sit near $19,877 and roughly 46% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Ponce Municipio runs 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,054 students), of which MANUEL GONZALEZ PATO is one.

Nearest neighbor: SANTA TERESITA, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MANUEL GONZALEZ PATO.

MANUEL GONZALEZ PATO operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. MANUEL GONZALEZ PATO's enrollment has decreased 63% since 2018, when it stood at 458 (now 168). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.

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