ROMAN COLON CORREA

ROMAN COLON CORREA is a medium-sized elementary school in COAMO, Puerto Rico, (ZIP code 00769). The grade span is pre-K through 8, and enrollment is 271 students.

The PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION system has 856 schools and 236,079 students.

The large majority of students at ROMAN COLON CORREA, 100%, are Hispanic. That is close to the 100% Hispanic share among all Coamo Municipio residents. The chance that two students picked at random at ROMAN COLON CORREA belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 0%.

At ROMAN COLON CORREA, 32 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 8.5:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Puerto Rico average 9.2:1. Roughly 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. That is close to the 88% average for public schools in Coamo Municipio.

Coamo Municipio census figures show that median household income is about $22,045 and the share of residents below the poverty line is 44%. ROMAN COLON CORREA is among the 13 public schools in Coamo Municipio.

BENIGNA INES CARATINI ESPARRA is the closest public school, about 3.7 miles away in a straight line. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Rural: Fringe: in rural territory close to an urban area.

Federal counts put enrollment at 254 in 2020-21 and 271 in 2024-25, a 7% rise. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 9.8:1; by 2024-25 it was 8.5:1.

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