PEDRO MILLAN RIVERA

PEDRO MILLAN RIVERA is an intimate elementary school in CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, run under PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. The school serves 177 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 24% smaller than the typical public school in Puerto Rico, which averages around 232 students.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION comprises 856 schools with combined enrollment of 236,079 students; PEDRO MILLAN RIVERA is among them.

Looking at the student body, PEDRO MILLAN RIVERA logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%). That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the area at large, Caguas Municipio reports that median household income runs about $31,379 and census figures put the poverty rate at about 34%. PEDRO MILLAN RIVERA is one of 32 public schools in Caguas Municipio (combined enrollment of about 7,277 students).

Nearest neighbor: ELOISA PASCUAL, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PEDRO MILLAN RIVERA.

PEDRO MILLAN RIVERA operates from an inner-city location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PEDRO MILLAN RIVERA has declined 39%, going from 289 students in 2018 to 177 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 today.

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