ANNIE LUCY WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ANNIE LUCY WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school of sprawling scale in PARRISH, Florida, overseen by MANATEE, instructing 981 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 62% larger than the state mean of about 604.

MANATEE comprises 80 schools with combined enrollment of 54,215 students; ANNIE LUCY WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ANNIE LUCY WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 65% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder breaks down as 19% Hispanic, 9% Black, 5% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Manatee County (around 51%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ANNIE LUCY WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.7%, the actual is 70.2%, a residual of +6.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, Manatee County reports that median household earnings sit near $78,457, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Manatee County runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 54,208 students), of which ANNIE LUCY WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

PARRISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ANNIE LUCY WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 62.9%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 7%: 915 students in 2018 compared to 981 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share grew from 5% to 9%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.