PETROAMERICA PAGAN

PETROAMERICA PAGAN, a moderately sized K-5 school in BARRANQUITAS, Puerto Rico, one of the schools within PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, hosts 335 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Puerto Rico's public schools average about 232 students each, so PETROAMERICA PAGAN sits 44% bigger than that benchmark.

PETROAMERICA PAGAN is one of 856 schools operated by PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, a district that teaches 236,079 students overall.

On the student-mix side, PETROAMERICA PAGAN records that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 7% White.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 9.2:1, putting PETROAMERICA PAGAN higher than the state norm the norm. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Barranquitas Municipio put the typical household earns roughly $23,407 per year and census figures put the poverty rate at about 48%. Across Barranquitas Municipio's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,350 students), PETROAMERICA PAGAN is one campus in the mix.

PABLO COLON BERDECIA is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. PETROAMERICA PAGAN's enrollment has ticked down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 352 (now 335). Over the same period, the Hispanic share fell from 100% to 93%.

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