MIGUEL GONZALEZ BAUZA

MIGUEL GONZALEZ BAUZA is an intimate elementary campus in PENUELAS, Puerto Rico, run under PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. The school instructs 190 students in grades pre-K through 5.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION runs 856 schools in total, collectively educating 236,079 students. MIGUEL GONZALEZ BAUZA is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, MIGUEL GONZALEZ BAUZA shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%). That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, MIGUEL GONZALEZ BAUZA shows 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.5:1. The state averages about 9.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Peñuelas Municipio's rate of about 88%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Peñuelas Municipio indicate median household income runs about $22,697 and the poverty rate sits near 49%. Across Peñuelas Municipio's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,784 students), MIGUEL GONZALEZ BAUZA is one campus in the mix.

INTERMEDIA TALLABOA ALTA is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MIGUEL GONZALEZ BAUZA has decreased 21%, going from 240 students in 2018 to 190 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.