HOLA! ELEMENTARY @ MSA

As a mid-sized elementary campus in PALMETTO, Florida, HOLA! ELEMENTARY @ MSA serves 551 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by MANATEE.

Across the 80 schools in MANATEE (54,215 students total), HOLA! ELEMENTARY @ MSA accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, HOLA! ELEMENTARY @ MSA records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 23% White, 10% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Manatee County as a whole is about 18% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, HOLA! ELEMENTARY @ MSA has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 29% of students at HOLA! ELEMENTARY @ MSA qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Manatee County (around 51%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, HOLA! ELEMENTARY @ MSA is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 66.6%; HOLA! ELEMENTARY @ MSA posts 46.1%, -20.5 points below that line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Manatee County put the typical household earns roughly $78,457 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Manatee County runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 54,208 students), of which HOLA! ELEMENTARY @ MSA is one.

Nearest neighbor: MANATEE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HOLA! ELEMENTARY @ MSA comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 41.8%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting. As a public charter, HOLA! ELEMENTARY @ MSA runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for HOLA! ELEMENTARY @ MSA typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.