RAFAEL RIVERA OTERO

RAFAEL RIVERA OTERO is one of the small K-5 schools in SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, run under PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, with 145 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 38% smaller than the state mean of about 232.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION runs 856 schools in total, collectively educating 236,079 students. RAFAEL RIVERA OTERO is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, RAFAEL RIVERA OTERO logs that nearly all students (99%) are Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.7:1. The state averages about 9.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the surrounding community, census data for San Juan Municipio shows median household income runs about $27,992 and roughly 36% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across San Juan Municipio's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,154 students), RAFAEL RIVERA OTERO is one campus in the mix.

WILLIAM D. BOYCE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RAFAEL RIVERA OTERO.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 35%: 224 students in 2018 compared to 145 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 today.

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