MERCEDES GARCIA DE COLORADO

As a low-enrollment junior high in CATANO, Puerto Rico, MERCEDES GARCIA DE COLORADO educates 162 students from grades 6 through 8, run under PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. By comparison, Puerto Rico's public schools average about 242 students each, so MERCEDES GARCIA DE COLORADO sits 33% below that benchmark.

Across the 856 schools in PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (236,079 students total), MERCEDES GARCIA DE COLORADO accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, MERCEDES GARCIA DE COLORADO records that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 7.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 9.9:1 average. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Zooming out to the county, Cataño Municipio reports that median household income runs about $25,508 and roughly 39% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cataño Municipio's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,653 students), MERCEDES GARCIA DE COLORADO is one campus in the mix.

ISAAC DEL ROSARIO is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

MERCEDES GARCIA DE COLORADO operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 35%: 248 students in 2018 compared to 162 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 7.4:1 today.

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