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Enrollment
421
Elementary
DISTRICT 564 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MANATEE·NCES 120123001218
BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
912 18TH ST W, BRADENTON, FL 34205 · (941) 708-8400 · Manatee County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL421 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
321 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 41 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 53 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 63 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (63).
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
35.8%
FL avg 56.7% . -2.4pp since 2023
Math
43.6%
FL avg 58.9% . +0.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.8% | 43.6% |
| 2023-24 | 38.2% | 42.7% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
40.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.0%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (40.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 421 | 76.2% | 40.1% |
| BLACKBURN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PALMETTO | 452 | 79.6% | 40.8% |
| CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKELAND | 437 | 79.9% | 28.1% |
| MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AVON PARK | 466 | 76.8% | 49.4% |
| BELLEAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLEARWATER | 455 | 74.5% | 49.4% |
| IDEA LAKELAND LAKELAND | 452 | 81.9% | N/A |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Manatee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.1% | #1,802 of 2,136 | #35 of 41 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.6% | #1,810 of 2,149 ▼ 84 | #33 of 41 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.8% | #1,922 of 2,149 ▼ 191 | #35 of 41 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 421 | #1,708 of 2,267 | #36 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #337 of 2,077 | #9 of 39 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.5% | #385 of 2,108 | #6 of 39 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.2% | #248 of 2,188 | #4 of 41 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.7% | #1,054 of 1,374 | #19 of 24 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
421
+7 (+2%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 544
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 13.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 421 | 30 | 14.0:1 | 76% (321) |
| 2023-24 | 417 | 30 | 13.9:1 | 78% (324) |
| 2022-23 | 400 | 27 | 14.8:1 | 83% (330) |
| 2020-21 | 414 | 31 | 13.3:1 | 72% (300) |
| 2017-18 | 456 | 36 | 12.7:1 | 78% (355) |
| 2015-16 | 434 | 32 | 13.6:1 | 79% (343) |
| 2010-11 | 400 | 28 | 14.3:1 | 88% (353) |
| 2000-01 | 521 | 30 | 17.4:1 | 65% (341) |
| 1990-91 | 544 | 34 | 16.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary school with an address in BRADENTON, Florida. It has an enrollment of 421 students in pre-K through 5. Across elementary schools in Florida, the average enrollment is about 604.
BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is run by MANATEE, whose 80 schools enroll 54,215 students.
About 47% of students at BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are Hispanic, the largest single group. The rest of enrollment is 25% Black, 18% White, 7% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Among all residents of Manatee County, the Hispanic share is about 18%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 68%.
There are 30 full-time-equivalent teachers at BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, giving a ratio of 14.0:1. Elementary schools in Florida have an average ratio of 17.5:1. By family income, 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Manatee County averages 51%, lower than here.
BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (40.1%) and its predicted rate (43.0%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Florida schools.
In Manatee County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $78,457 a year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Counting BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Manatee County has 86 public schools.
A public school about 0.6 miles away, BRADENTON BAY HIGH SCHOOL, is the closest to BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among its closest neighbors with test data, BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 4th of 5 on proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is City: Small.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 414 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 421.
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Manatee County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
429,792
Census ACS
Median income
$78,457
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
86
54,208 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MANATEE
- LAKEWOOD RANCH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,422 students
- PARRISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,266 students
- PALMETTO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,185 students
- MANATEE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTSHigh · 2,051 students
- MANATEE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,998 students
- BRADEN RIVER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,705 students
Other schools in BRADENTON
- LAKEWOOD RANCH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,422 students
- MANATEE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,998 students
- BRADEN RIVER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,705 students
- SOUTHEAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,638 students
- TEAM SUCCESS A SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCECombined · 1,441 students
- BAYSHORE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,400 students
Other Ballard Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Ballard Elementary. BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 5.
- Ballard Elementary SchoolNILES, MI · 516 students
- BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWILTON, NY · 311 students
- Ballard ElementarySolvang, CA · 113 students
- BALLARD ELEM.BUTLER, MO · 57 students
Nearby schools
- BRADENTON BAY HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 114
- G D ROGERS GARDEN- BULLOCK ELEMENTARY0.8 mi · 472
- MANATEE HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 1,998
- JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER1.0 mi · 77
- TEAM SUCCESS A SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE1.2 mi · 1,441
- MANATEE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY-HEAD START1.3 mi · 16
Frequently asked questions
About BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 421 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 14.0:1 students per teacher at BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 18% White, 47% Hispanic, 25% Black, 3% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by MANATEE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.