TRINA PADILLA DE SANZ ARECIBO

TRINA PADILLA DE SANZ ARECIBO is a four-year high school of medium-sized scale in ARECIBO, Puerto Rico, run under PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, educateing 465 students in grades 6 through 12.

TRINA PADILLA DE SANZ ARECIBO is one of 856 schools operated by PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, a district that caters to 236,079 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, TRINA PADILLA DE SANZ ARECIBO shows that nearly all students (100%) are Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, TRINA PADILLA DE SANZ ARECIBO has 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.4:1. The state averages around 10.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 89% of students at TRINA PADILLA DE SANZ ARECIBO qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Arecibo Municipio put the typical household earns roughly $23,635 per year and roughly 38% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Arecibo Municipio runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,627 students), of which TRINA PADILLA DE SANZ ARECIBO is one.

Nearest neighbor: ABELARDO MARTINEZ OTERO, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around TRINA PADILLA DE SANZ ARECIBO.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at TRINA PADILLA DE SANZ ARECIBO has held roughly steady, going from 469 students in 2018 to 465 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 8.4:1 today.

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