JESSIE P. MILLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in BRADENTON, Florida, JESSIE P. MILLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized elementary-level community, part of MANATEE. It educates 586 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Within MANATEE, which oversees 80 schools and 54,215 students, JESSIE P. MILLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, JESSIE P. MILLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 43% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 38% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Manatee County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, JESSIE P. MILLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting JESSIE P. MILLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Manatee County's rate of about 51%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), JESSIE P. MILLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.3%, the actual is 52.6%, a residual of +6.4 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Manatee County shows 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), JESSIE P. MILLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JESSIE P. MILLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JESSIE P. MILLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 47.5%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 24%: 770 students in 2018 compared to 586 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 23% to 38%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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