📍 Carr 505 Km 7 Hm 0 Urb Jardines de Ponce, Ponce, Ponce Municipio, 00731
Jardines de Ponce is a State/Public serving middle age pupils, located in Ponce, Ponce Municipio. The school has 356 pupils enrolled. It is part of the Puerto Rico Department Of Education school district. It serves grades 6–8 in an urban setting. The school employs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, a student-teacher ratio of 12.7:1. Technology infrastructure includes fiber internet, devices for students.
Jardines de Ponce enrolls 356 students across grades 6–8. The student body is 43% male and 57% female. A teaching staff of 28 full-time-equivalent teachers supports the school, giving a student-teacher ratio of 12.7:1.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 99% Hispanic or Latino and <1% White.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Hispanic or Latino | 354 | 99% |
| White | 2 | <1% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
324 of the school's 356 students (91%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Of these, 301 qualify for free lunch and 23 for a reduced price. The school participates in the National School Lunch Program. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility is a widely used indicator of the share of students from lower-income households.
Jardines de Ponce is located in an urban setting (NCES locale: City, Midsize). The school runs a schoolwide Title I program, which provides federal funding to support students from low-income families. For civic and policy purposes, the school sits in congressional district PR At-Large (non-voting delegate), state senate district 5, state house district 25.
Jardines de Ponce is one of 858 schools in PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, based in HATO REY, Puerto Rico. The district serves 235,819 students district-wide and employs 24,096 full-time-equivalent teachers. With 356 students, Jardines de Ponce is larger than the district average of about 275 students per school.
Setting: City - Midsize