MANUEL MENDEZ LICIAGA

Set in SAN SEBASTIAN, Puerto Rico, MANUEL MENDEZ LICIAGA is a sizable secondary school, one of the schools within PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. It works with 886 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 128% bigger than the state mean of about 389.

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

Looking at the student body, MANUEL MENDEZ LICIAGA logs that nearly all students (100%) are Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with San Sebastián Municipio as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 76 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.2:1, putting MANUEL MENDEZ LICIAGA higher than the state norm the norm. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Zooming out to the county, census data for San Sebastián Municipio shows median household income runs about $19,920 and census figures put the poverty rate at about 45%. In all, San Sebastián Municipio runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,799 students), of which MANUEL MENDEZ LICIAGA is one.

Nearest neighbor: ERNESTINA MENDEZ, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MANUEL MENDEZ LICIAGA.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 3%: 909 students in 2018 compared to 886 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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