PEPITA GARRIGA

PEPITA GARRIGA is a low-enrollment elementary school in CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, one of the schools within PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. The school instructs 182 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Puerto Rico's public schools average about 232 students each, so PEPITA GARRIGA sits 22% leaner than that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, PEPITA GARRIGA logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%). Compared to Caguas Municipio overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, PEPITA GARRIGA has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Caguas Municipio) records that median household earnings sit near $31,379 and the poverty rate sits near 34%. In all, Caguas Municipio runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,277 students), of which PEPITA GARRIGA is one.

FELIPE RIVERA CENTENO is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. PEPITA GARRIGA's enrollment has shrank 31% since 2018, when it stood at 264 (now 182). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 8.7:1 today.

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