Original Research by School Decision on Rosalina C. Martinez - Alianza
Rosalina C. Martinez - Alianza is a charter school in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, serving students in grades six through twelve. It operates under the Puerto Rico Department of Education. The school is small for its grade span, with an enrollment that distributes fairly evenly across the seven grade levels. The student body is entirely Hispanic, and an overwhelming majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which points to a community serving families with limited economic means.
Guaynabo sits within the San Juan metropolitan area and has a dual character. It is a corporate hub for Puerto Rico, home to headquarters or regional offices for companies in banking, media, energy, and technology, along with major retail centers like San Patricio Plaza and Plaza Guaynabo. At the same time, the municipality has faced real hardship. Hurricane Maria caused severe destruction, and recovery was slow, complicated by fiscal strain. The population is slightly declining. The built environment is largely suburban and auto-oriented, though the traditional downtown core around the central square and San Pedro Martir church offers a more walkable civic center. Two Tren Urbano stations and a municipal bus network connect Guaynabo to the broader San Juan metro rail system. For a family considering this school, the surrounding area offers both employment density and cultural amenities, including a performing arts center, sports coliseum, museums, and the Caparra Ruins archaeological site, while also carrying the weight of post-hurricane recovery and persistent poverty.
Academic performance data for this school was not available. State assessment results were not reported, and multi-year trend data was not provided. This means a parent cannot judge the school's proficiency or growth from the information here. The absence of results may reflect the school's charter status or reporting circumstances on the island, but the data does not give a specific reason. A parent looking at this school would want to ask the school directly about how students are performing on standardized tests and what internal assessments the school uses to track progress.
Graduation rate information was not provided, which is a gap for a school that includes high school grades. Without it, there is no way to characterize how well the school moves students through to completion. Course access data, including any Advanced Placement, dual-credit, or career pathway offerings, was also not available. The same is true for staffing ratios, discipline data, and attendance figures. These are all areas a parent may want to look into further with the school before making a decision.
Special population data for students with individualized education programs and English learners was missing. Given that the school serves a high-poverty community, understanding what support services are available is important, and the school is the right place to ask.
The district-level picture did not add much. We looked for parent-relevant changes or strategic priorities from the Puerto Rico Department of Education and found limited specific information, so we left it out rather than guess.
What the data does tell you is this: Rosalina C. Martinez - Alianza is a small charter school serving a high-poverty, entirely Hispanic student body across middle and high school grades in a commercially dense but economically uneven corner of the San Juan metro area. The academic evidence needed to judge it is simply not in the record, and filling that gap will require direct conversation with the school.
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