Former Schools in Puerto Rico
This problem is not germane to any one area on the Island; "Most school closures disproportionately occurred in the Island's rural areas (65%) relative to urban areas (35%)." (1) As the map in the previous page displayed, the school closures occurred all over the island. The Hurricane also
caused students to miss, on average, 78 days of school (2), and the fourth grade and eighth grade mathematical benchmark exams showed that Puerto Rico declined in its achievement benchmarks from 2017 (the year the hurricane hit) to 2019. (3)
