BARBARA A HARVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BARBARA A HARVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a sprawling K-5 school in PARRISH, Florida, run under MANATEE. Current enrollment sits at 1,356 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 125% larger than the state mean of about 604.

MANATEE runs 80 schools in total, collectively educating 54,215 students. BARBARA A HARVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, BARBARA A HARVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 59% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 21% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Manatee County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.1:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 38% 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 noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BARBARA A HARVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.3%, the actual is 67.2%, a residual of +4.9 points.

Around the school, Manatee County reports that median household income runs about $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. BARBARA A HARVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 86 public schools in Manatee County (combined enrollment of about 54,208 students).

Nearest neighbor: PARRISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BARBARA A HARVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 57.1%.

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