CARLOS E. HAILE MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in BRADENTON, Florida, CARLOS E. HAILE MIDDLE SCHOOL is an average-sized middle-grades school, part of MANATEE. It instructs 715 students across grades 6 through 8.

MANATEE runs 80 schools in total, collectively educating 54,215 students. CARLOS E. HAILE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, CARLOS E. HAILE MIDDLE SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 26% Hispanic, 11% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Manatee County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, CARLOS E. HAILE MIDDLE SCHOOL logs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting CARLOS E. HAILE MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 44% of students at CARLOS E. HAILE MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, CARLOS E. HAILE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.0%; this one delivers 65.7%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Manatee County put median household income runs about $78,457, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Manatee County's 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 54,208 students), CARLOS E. HAILE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

FREEDOM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CARLOS E. HAILE MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 61.2%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 41%: 1,209 students in 2018 compared to 715 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 61% to 54% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 21.0:1 in 2025.

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