NORMA I. TORRES COLON

NORMA I. TORRES COLON is an elementary campus of low-enrollment scale in VILLALBA, Puerto Rico, run under PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, caters to 137 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Puerto Rico's public schools average about 232 students each, so NORMA I. TORRES COLON sits 41% leaner than that benchmark.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION runs 856 schools in total, collectively educating 236,079 students. NORMA I. TORRES COLON is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, NORMA I. TORRES COLON records that nearly all students (100%) are Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Villalba Municipio indicate the typical household earns roughly $26,286 per year and the poverty rate sits near 35%. Across Villalba Municipio's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,828 students), NORMA I. TORRES COLON is one campus in the mix.

FRANCISCO ZAYAS SANTANA is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NORMA I. TORRES COLON has shrank 52%, going from 286 students in 2018 to 137 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.