MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a primary school of compact scale in BRADENTON, Florida, one of the schools within MANATEE, serveing 488 students in grades pre-K through 5.

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

Looking at the student body, MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 61% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 32% Black, 3% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 18% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Manatee County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.3%, the actual is 29.8%, a residual of -8.5 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Manatee County) logs that median household earnings sit near $78,457, 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 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: JUST FOR GIRLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has remained close to its prior level, going from 478 students in 2018 to 488 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 47% to 61%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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