MANATEE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY-HEAD START

MANATEE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY-HEAD START operates as a minimally staffed elementary campus in BRADENTON, Florida, run under MANATEE. Current enrollment sits at 16 students spanning grade pre-K. Enrollment runs roughly 97% smaller than the state mean of about 604.

Across the 80 schools in MANATEE (54,215 students total), MANATEE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY-HEAD START accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, MANATEE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY-HEAD START logs that Black students make up the majority at 56%. Beyond that, the school shows 44% Hispanic. By comparison, Manatee County as a whole is about 8% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, MANATEE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY-HEAD START lists 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Manatee County indicate median household earnings sit near $78,457, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Manatee County runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 54,208 students), of which MANATEE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY-HEAD START is one.

TEAM SUCCESS A SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MANATEE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY-HEAD START.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. MANATEE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY-HEAD START's enrollment has fell 47% since 2018, when it stood at 30 (now 16). White enrollment moved from 27% to 0% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 1.8:1 in 2018 to 8.0:1 today.

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