TULIO LARRINAGA

Located at CALLE ANDRES VALCARCEL, in TRUJILLO ALTO, Puerto Rico, TULIO LARRINAGA is a tight-knit elementary school that educates 192 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

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

On the student-mix side, TULIO LARRINAGA logs that nearly all students (100%) are Hispanic. Compared to Trujillo Alto Municipio overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 80% of students at TULIO LARRINAGA qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Across the wider county, census data for Trujillo Alto Municipio shows median household income runs about $40,055 and roughly 24% of residents live below the federal poverty line. TULIO LARRINAGA is one of 10 public schools in Trujillo Alto Municipio (combined enrollment of about 2,594 students).

ANDRES VALCARCEL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 22%: 246 students in 2018 compared to 192 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 8.7:1 today.

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