PARADISO COLLEGE PREPARATORY - ALIANZA

PARADISO COLLEGE PREPARATORY - ALIANZA is a heavily attended 6-8 campus in ARECIBO, Puerto Rico, run under PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. The school works with 678 students in grades 5 through 9. Enrollment runs roughly 180% above the state mean of about 242.

Within PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, which oversees 856 schools and 236,079 students, PARADISO COLLEGE PREPARATORY - ALIANZA is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, PARADISO COLLEGE PREPARATORY - ALIANZA shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%). That composition is broadly in line with Arecibo Municipio as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 9.9:1 average. Roughly 89% of students at PARADISO COLLEGE PREPARATORY - ALIANZA qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Arecibo Municipio put median household income runs about $23,635 and the poverty rate sits near 38%. PARADISO COLLEGE PREPARATORY - ALIANZA is one of 22 public schools in Arecibo Municipio (combined enrollment of about 6,627 students).

Nearest neighbor: JOHN W. HARRIS, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area. PARADISO COLLEGE PREPARATORY - ALIANZA is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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