RICARDO ARROYO LARACUENTE

RICARDO ARROYO LARACUENTE is a low-enrollment middle-grades school in DORADO, Puerto Rico, run under PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. The school serves 186 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Puerto Rico's public schools average about 242 students each, so RICARDO ARROYO LARACUENTE sits 23% smaller than that benchmark.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION runs 856 schools in total, collectively educating 236,079 students. RICARDO ARROYO LARACUENTE is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, RICARDO ARROYO LARACUENTE records that nearly all students (98%) are Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, RICARDO ARROYO LARACUENTE lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.2:1. The state averages around 9.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

In the broader community, census data for Dorado Municipio shows the typical household earns roughly $36,391 per year and the poverty rate sits near 25%. RICARDO ARROYO LARACUENTE is one of 6 public schools in Dorado Municipio (combined enrollment of about 2,154 students).

JOSE SANTOS ALEGRIA is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RICARDO ARROYO LARACUENTE has declined 48%, going from 359 students in 2018 to 186 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 7.2:1 today.

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