SANTIAGO R. PALMER

SANTIAGO R. PALMER, a medium-sized elementary school, is located in CAMUY, Puerto Rico. The grade span is kindergarten through 8, and enrollment is 218 students.

The district, PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, has 236,079 students enrolled across 856 schools.

The large majority of students at SANTIAGO R. PALMER, 100%, are Hispanic. County-wide, about 100% of residents are Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at SANTIAGO R. PALMER belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 0%.

The ratio of students to teachers is 10.9:1, with 20 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. The 9.2:1 average for elementary schools in Puerto Rico is lower than this school's figure. Lunch subsidy eligibility at SANTIAGO R. PALMER is 88%. Across public schools in Camuy Municipio, the average is about the same, 88%.

According to the American Community Survey, in Camuy Municipio, median household income is about $27,411 and the share of residents below the poverty line is 35%. SANTIAGO R. PALMER is one of 9 public schools in Camuy Municipio, which together enroll about 2,883 students.

The shortest distance from SANTIAGO R. PALMER to another public school is less than a tenth of a mile, to SUPERIOR MIGUEL F SANTIAGO ECHEGARAY. The five-mile area around SANTIAGO R. PALMER holds 6 other public schools.

Its location is classified as Rural: Fringe by the National Center for Education Statistics.

Federal counts put enrollment at 264 in 2020-21 and 218 in 2024-25, a 17% decrease. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 13.9:1 to 10.9:1.

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