SIMON MADERA

SIMON MADERA is one of the mid-sized elementary schools in GUAYAMA, Puerto Rico, part of PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, with 281 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. By comparison, Puerto Rico's public schools average about 232 students each, so SIMON MADERA sits 21% larger than that benchmark.

Within PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, which oversees 856 schools and 236,079 students, SIMON MADERA is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SIMON MADERA logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (99%). That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, SIMON MADERA has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 9.2:1, putting SIMON MADERA higher than the state norm the norm. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Guayama Municipio shows the typical household earns roughly $20,402 per year and the poverty rate sits near 47%. Across Guayama Municipio's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,290 students), SIMON MADERA is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: DR. RAFAEL LOPEZ LANDRON, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SIMON MADERA.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SIMON MADERA has shrank 17%, going from 337 students in 2018 to 281 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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