VOCACIONAL WILLIAM RIVERA BETANCOURT

VOCACIONAL WILLIAM RIVERA BETANCOURT, a moderately sized high school in CANOVANAS, Puerto Rico, run under PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, works with 479 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 23% bigger than the typical public school in Puerto Rico, which averages around 389 students.

Within PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, which oversees 856 schools and 236,079 students, VOCACIONAL WILLIAM RIVERA BETANCOURT is one campus in the system.

On demographics, VOCACIONAL WILLIAM RIVERA BETANCOURT lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%). That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 10.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Canóvanas Municipio indicate the typical household earns roughly $29,642 per year and roughly 30% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Canóvanas Municipio runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,525 students), of which VOCACIONAL WILLIAM RIVERA BETANCOURT is one.

JOSE SANTOS QUINONES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at VOCACIONAL WILLIAM RIVERA BETANCOURT has expanded 5%, going from 458 students in 2018 to 479 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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