H. S. MOODY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

H. S. MOODY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a K-5 school of mid-tier scale in BRADENTON, Florida, part of MANATEE, teacheing 602 students in grades pre-K through 5.

MANATEE runs 80 schools in total, collectively educating 54,215 students. H. S. MOODY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, H. S. MOODY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 56% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 22% White, 16% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Manatee County as a whole is about 18% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting H. S. MOODY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Manatee County's rate of about 51%.

With demographic context factored in, H. S. MOODY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 46.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.6%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Manatee County) shows that median household earnings sit near $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. Across Manatee County's 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 54,208 students), H. S. MOODY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

W. D. SUGG MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around H. S. MOODY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), H. S. MOODY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 44.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 4%: 630 students in 2018 compared to 602 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 45% to 56%.

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