MARIA LUISA ARCELAY

MARIA LUISA ARCELAY operates as a micro-enrollment elementary campus in MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico, overseen by PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Current enrollment sits at 66 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Puerto Rico's public schools average about 232 students each, so MARIA LUISA ARCELAY sits 72% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 856 schools in PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (236,079 students total), MARIA LUISA ARCELAY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, MARIA LUISA ARCELAY logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%). Compared to Mayagüez Municipio overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 9.2:1 average. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Around the school, census data for Mayagüez Municipio shows median household income runs about $18,295 and the poverty rate sits near 46%. MARIA LUISA ARCELAY is one of 16 public schools in Mayagüez Municipio (combined enrollment of about 4,204 students).

Nearest neighbor: SEGUNDO RUIZ BELVIS MAYAGUEZ, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MARIA LUISA ARCELAY.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. MARIA LUISA ARCELAY's enrollment has decreased 42% since 2018, when it stood at 113 (now 66). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 10.3:1 in 2018 to 6.0:1 today.

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