TOMAS (MASO) RIVERA MORALES

TOMAS (MASO) RIVERA MORALES is a reasonably sized four-year high school in TOA ALTA, Puerto Rico, run under PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. The school serves 511 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 31% above the typical public school in Puerto Rico, which averages around 389 students.

PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION runs 856 schools in total, collectively educating 236,079 students. TOMAS (MASO) RIVERA MORALES is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, TOMAS (MASO) RIVERA MORALES logs that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That composition is broadly in line with Toa Alta Municipio as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 10.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 87% 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, Toa Alta Municipio reports that the typical household earns roughly $35,241 per year and census figures put the poverty rate at about 30%. In all, Toa Alta Municipio runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,530 students), of which TOMAS (MASO) RIVERA MORALES is one.

The closest other public school is MANUEL VELILLA, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around TOMAS (MASO) RIVERA MORALES.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 7%: 547 students in 2018 compared to 511 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.

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