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G D ROGERS GARDEN- BULLOCK ELEMENTARY
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 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 are down about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 44% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About G D ROGERS GARDEN- BULLOCK ELEMENTARY
G D ROGERS GARDEN- BULLOCK ELEMENTARY, a close-knit K-5 school in BRADENTON, Florida, one of the schools within MANATEE, teaches 472 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 22% below the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.
G D ROGERS GARDEN- BULLOCK ELEMENTARY is one of 80 schools operated by MANATEE, a district that serves 54,215 students overall.
In terms of who attends, G D ROGERS GARDEN- BULLOCK ELEMENTARY logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 57% of enrollment. Other groups include 30% Black, 8% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 18% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, G D ROGERS GARDEN- BULLOCK ELEMENTARY logs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 75% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Manatee County's rate of about 51%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), G D ROGERS GARDEN- BULLOCK ELEMENTARY is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 43.6%; G D ROGERS GARDEN- BULLOCK ELEMENTARY posts 26.4%, -17.2 points below that line.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Manatee County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $78,457 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Manatee County runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 54,208 students), of which G D ROGERS GARDEN- BULLOCK ELEMENTARY is one.
JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts G D ROGERS GARDEN- BULLOCK ELEMENTARY at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 49.3%.
G D ROGERS GARDEN- BULLOCK ELEMENTARY operates from a metropolitan location.
Five-year trend. G D ROGERS GARDEN- BULLOCK ELEMENTARY's enrollment has fell 13% since 2018, when it stood at 540 (now 472). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 50% to 57% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.
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