ELECTA LEE MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL

As a mid-tier middle school in BRADENTON, Florida, ELECTA LEE MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL instructs 679 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within MANATEE.

Within MANATEE, which oversees 80 schools and 54,215 students, ELECTA LEE MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ELECTA LEE MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 58% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 19% White, 17% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 18% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, ELECTA LEE MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Manatee County (around 51%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ELECTA LEE MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 46.7%; ELECTA LEE MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL posts 31.0%, -15.7 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, Manatee County reports that median household income runs about $78,457, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Manatee County runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 54,208 students), of which ELECTA LEE MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

BAYSHORE HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ELECTA LEE MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, ELECTA LEE MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 38%: 1,089 students in 2018 compared to 679 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 28% to 19%.

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