MATRULLAS

In OROCOVIS, Puerto Rico, part of Orocovis Municipio, MATRULLAS is an elementary school. The school offers kindergarten through 8 and enrolls 115 students. Across elementary schools in Puerto Rico, the average enrollment is about 232.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION oversees MATRULLAS and 855 other schools, with 236,079 students in total.

A large majority of enrollment at MATRULLAS is Hispanic, at 98%. Among Orocovis Municipio residents, the Hispanic share is about 99%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, MATRULLAS scores 3%.

Teacher count: 21 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 5.5:1. Compared with the 9.2:1 average for elementary schools in Puerto Rico, this school's ratio is lower. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 92%.

Orocovis Municipio is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $20,302 and about 48% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Orocovis Municipio's 10 public schools enroll about 2,292 students and include MATRULLAS.

RAMON LOPEZ BERRIOS is about 3.3 miles from MATRULLAS, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, 6 other public schools are within five miles.

Locale: Rural: Fringe. In NCES terms, the school is in rural territory close to an urban area.

By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 115, from 138 in 2020-21. The ratio of students to teachers went from 9.9:1 to 5.5:1 over the same years.

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