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Enrollment
1,700
Elementary
DISTRICT 911 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. LUCIE·NCES 120177001111
MANATEE ACADEMY K-8
1450 SW HEATHERWOOD BLVD, PORT ST LUCIE, FL 34986 · (772) 340-4745 · St. Lucie County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,700 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 42% of Florida public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.5:1
92 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.4:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
1,002 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 129 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 139 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 146 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 168 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 159 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 178 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 214 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 271 | 16% |
| Grade 8 | 296 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (129) is 56% smaller than its 8th grade class (296).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
54.2%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.6pp since 2023
Math
54.1%
FL avg 58.9% . -1.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.2% | 54.1% |
| 2023-24 | 48.6% | 55.5% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
52.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like MANATEE ACADEMY K-8
MANATEE ACADEMY K-8's state test result (52.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MANATEE ACADEMY K-8 this school | 1,700 | 58.9% | 52.5% |
| ST. LUCIE WEST K-8 SCHOOL PORT ST LUCIE | 1,662 | 61.4% | 53.7% |
| RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL OF ST. LUCIE PORT ST LUCIE | 1,413 | 56.0% | 52.2% |
| ALLAPATTAH FLATS K-8 PORT ST LUCIE | 1,347 | 56.9% | 57.1% |
| OAK HAMMOCK K-8 SCHOOL PORT ST LUCIE | 1,727 | 66.4% | 45.4% |
| WEST GATE K-8 SCHOOL PORT ST LUCIE | 1,639 | 50.5% | 59.3% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where MANATEE ACADEMY K-8 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In St. Lucie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.5% | #1,209 of 2,136 | #17 of 31 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.1% | #1,367 of 2,149 ▼ 228 | #22 of 31 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.2% | #1,099 of 2,149 ▲ 134 | #12 of 31 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,700 | #15 of 2,267 | #2 of 31 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.5:1 | #1,762 of 2,077 | #26 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.2% | #194 of 2,108 | #9 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.9% | #949 of 2,188 | #17 of 31 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +23.6% | #160 of 621 | #6 of 22 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,700
+291 (+21%) vs 2020
+112% since 2000-01, when it was 802
Student : Teacher
18.5:1
was 18.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,700 | 92 | 18.5:1 | 59% (1,002) |
| 2023-24 | 1,723 | 87 | 19.8:1 | 60% (1,031) |
| 2022-23 | 1,664 | 85.5 | 19.5:1 | 65% (1,081) |
| 2020-21 | 1,409 | 77 | 18.3:1 | 59% (835) |
| 2017-18 | 1,375 | 87 | 15.8:1 | 62% (848) |
| 2015-16 | 1,374 | 92 | 14.9:1 | 67% (922) |
| 2010-11 | 1,460 | 97 | 15.1:1 | 61% (890) |
| 2000-01 | 802 | 37 | 21.7:1 | 56% (452) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MANATEE ACADEMY K-8.
About MANATEE ACADEMY K-8
MANATEE ACADEMY K-8 is a high-enrollment elementary school in PORT ST LUCIE, Florida, (ZIP code 34986). It is open to students in kindergarten through 8 and enrolls 1,700 students. That is 181% larger than the average of about 604 students for elementary schools in Florida.
ST. LUCIE, which runs MANATEE ACADEMY K-8, has 53 schools and 49,308 students.
Black students account for 36% of enrollment at MANATEE ACADEMY K-8, more than any other group. Other groups make up 30% Hispanic, 28% White, and 5% multiracial. County-wide, 22% of St. Lucie County residents are Black. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 18.5:1. The school has 92 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida is 1.0 students per teacher. In all, 59% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The figure for public schools in St. Lucie County is close, at 57%.
MANATEE ACADEMY K-8 holds a C+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 42% of Florida public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, MANATEE ACADEMY K-8 is within a point of the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 52.5% actual, 51.6% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Florida.
Census data for St. Lucie County show median household income comes to about $71,457, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 27%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. There are 57 public schools in the county, enrolling about 50,809, MANATEE ACADEMY K-8 among them.
MANATEE ACADEMY K-8's closest public school neighbor is ST. LUCIE WEST CENTENNIAL HIGH, about 0.9 miles away. The five-mile area around MANATEE ACADEMY K-8 holds at least 8 other public schools. MANATEE ACADEMY K-8 ranks 5th of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 52.5% against a local average of 53.5%.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Mid-size.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased 21%.
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St. Lucie County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
360,500
Census ACS
Median income
$71,457
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
57
50,809 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ST. LUCIE
- FORT PIERCE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,178 students
- TREASURE COAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,124 students
- ST. LUCIE WEST CENTENNIAL HIGHHigh · 2,914 students
- FORT PIERCE WESTWOOD ACADEMY THE W.E.S.T. PREP MAGNETHigh · 1,956 students
- PORT ST. LUCIE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,793 students
- OAK HAMMOCK K-8 SCHOOLElementary · 1,727 students
Other schools in PORT ST LUCIE
- TREASURE COAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,124 students
- ST. LUCIE WEST CENTENNIAL HIGHHigh · 2,914 students
- PORT ST. LUCIE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,793 students
- OAK HAMMOCK K-8 SCHOOLElementary · 1,727 students
- ST. LUCIE WEST K-8 SCHOOLElementary · 1,662 students
- WEST GATE K-8 SCHOOLElementary · 1,639 students
Nearby schools
- ST. LUCIE WEST CENTENNIAL HIGH0.9 mi · 2,914
- SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY1.1 mi · 527
- ST. LUCIE WEST K-8 SCHOOL1.1 mi · 1,662
- OAK HAMMOCK K-8 SCHOOL1.6 mi · 1,727
- RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL OF ST. LUCIE1.9 mi · 1,413
- BAYSHORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 879
Frequently asked questions
About MANATEE ACADEMY K-8What is the total enrollment at MANATEE ACADEMY K-8?
MANATEE ACADEMY K-8 enrolls approximately 1,700 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does MANATEE ACADEMY K-8 serve?
MANATEE ACADEMY K-8 serves grades KG-08.
How many students per teacher at MANATEE ACADEMY K-8?
Approximately 18.5:1 students per teacher at MANATEE ACADEMY K-8.
What is the racial breakdown of students at MANATEE ACADEMY K-8?
At MANATEE ACADEMY K-8, the student body is approximately 28% White, 30% Hispanic, 36% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees MANATEE ACADEMY K-8?
MANATEE ACADEMY K-8 is overseen by ST. LUCIE in St. Lucie County.
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