WEBSTER

Set in PENUELAS, Puerto Rico, WEBSTER is a moderately sized elementary campus, run under PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. It caters to 274 students across grades K through 5.

Across the 856 schools in PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (236,079 students total), WEBSTER accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, WEBSTER lists that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, WEBSTER lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.4:1. The state averages about 9.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Peñuelas Municipio indicate median household income runs about $22,697 and census figures put the poverty rate at about 49%. In all, Peñuelas Municipio runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,784 students), of which WEBSTER is one.

RAFAEL IRIZARRY RIVERA is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WEBSTER.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 15%: 239 students in 2018 compared to 274 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

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