MANATEE CHARTER SCHOOL

MANATEE CHARTER SCHOOL is a reasonably sized primary school in BRADENTON, Florida, part of MANATEE. The school educates 619 students in grades K through 8.

MANATEE comprises 80 schools with combined enrollment of 54,215 students; MANATEE CHARTER SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, MANATEE CHARTER SCHOOL records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 60%. The remainder comes out to 19% Black, 17% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Manatee County as a whole is about 18% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, MANATEE CHARTER SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 55.5%; actual is 41.2%, a gap of -14.3 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Manatee County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $78,457 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Manatee County's 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 54,208 students), MANATEE CHARTER SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MANATEE CHARTER SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, MANATEE CHARTER SCHOOL comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.5%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site. MANATEE CHARTER SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MANATEE CHARTER SCHOOL has climbed 39%, going from 444 students in 2018 to 619 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 50% to 60% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 9.7:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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