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Enrollment
1,268
Elementary
DISTRICT 685 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALM BEACH·NCES 120150002934
MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
7001 CHARLESTON SHORES BLVD, LAKE WORTH, FL 33467 · (561) 357-1800 · Palm Beach County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,268 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
74 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.4:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
295 students
DISTRICT 49% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 81 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 176 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 179 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 197 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 204 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 202 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 229 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (176) is 23% smaller than its 5th grade class (229).
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
70.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +3.8pp since 2023
Math
71.7%
FL avg 58.9% . -1.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.0% | 71.7% |
| 2023-24 | 66.2% | 73.3% |
% 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
71.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (71.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 1,268 | 23.3% | 71.4% |
| BARTRAM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY JACKSONVILLE | 1,013 | 23.5% | 67.2% |
| KIRKLAND RANCH K-8 WESLEY CHAPEL | 1,145 | 21.0% | 71.6% |
| GRASSY LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MINNEOLA | 1,293 | 24.5% | 63.8% |
| CHET'S CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 1,079 | 27.9% | 71.8% |
| MANDARIN OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 1,061 | 27.1% | 62.3% |
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 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Palm Beach County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.4% | #407 of 2,136 | #29 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.7% | #576 of 2,149 ▼ 141 | #33 of 129 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #436 of 2,149 ▲ 63 | #28 of 129 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,268 | #66 of 2,267 | #3 of 133 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.1:1 | #1,465 of 2,077 | #109 of 128 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.5% | #248 of 2,108 | #17 of 128 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.3% | #1,948 of 2,188 | #109 of 130 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.7% | #1,261 of 1,374 | #68 of 77 |
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
1,268
+90 (+8%) vs 2020
-2% since 2000-01, when it was 1,299
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 1,268 | 74 | 17.1:1 | 23% (295) |
| 2023-24 | 1,279 | 75.5 | 16.9:1 | 28% (356) |
| 2022-23 | 1,228 | 76 | 16.2:1 | 26% (322) |
| 2020-21 | 1,178 | 74 | 15.9:1 | 37% (433) |
| 2017-18 | 1,303 | 88 | 14.8:1 | 32% (421) |
| 2015-16 | 1,242 | 83 | 15.0:1 | 33% (413) |
| 2010-11 | 1,080 | 69 | 15.7:1 | 21% (222) |
| 2000-01 | 1,299 | 67 | 19.4:1 | 23% (297) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a large elementary school with an address in LAKE WORTH, Florida. The school offers pre-K through 5 and enrolls 1,268 students. The school is 110% larger than the average for elementary schools in Florida.
MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among 233 schools run by PALM BEACH, which serves 191,505 students.
No group is above 50% at MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL; the largest is White, at 43%. Other reported shares: 29% Hispanic, 16% Black, 7% Asian, and 4% multiracial. Palm Beach County's residents are about 53% White, 10 points above the school's share. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 17.1:1. The school has 74 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average ratio among elementary schools in Florida is similar, at 17.5:1. In all, 23% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 22 points below the 45% average for public schools in Palm Beach County.
On BeatsExpectations, MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 1.9 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Florida schools.
The school's county is Palm Beach County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $83,581, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 41%, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. There are 245 public schools in the county, enrolling about 192,831, MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
The closest school to MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is PARK VISTA COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL, located about 1.0 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is ahead of the 63.8% nearby average, ranking 3rd of 8.
MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment rose 8% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 15.9:1; by 2024-25 it was 17.1:1.
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Palm Beach County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,533,806
Census ACS
Median income
$83,581
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
245
192,831 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PALM BEACH
- JOHN I. LEONARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,262 students
- JUPITER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,122 students
- PARK VISTA COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,881 students
- BOCA RATON COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,819 students
- PALM BEACH LAKES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,809 students
- PALM BEACH CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,760 students
Other schools in LAKE WORTH
- PARK VISTA COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,881 students
- LAKE WORTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,589 students
- DR. JOAQUIN GARCIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,541 students
- WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,307 students
- BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,185 students
- LAKE WORTH COMMUNITY MIDDLEMiddle · 1,136 students
Other Manatee Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 1 state are named Manatee Elementary. MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the largest of the 5.
- MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLVIERA, FL · 910 students
- MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLFORT MYERS, FL · 728 students
- MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLNAPLES, FL · 564 students
- MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBRADENTON, FL · 488 students
Nearby schools
- PARK VISTA COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 2,881
- CORAL REEF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 978
- CHRISTA MCAULIFFE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 1,079
- INDIAN PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 566
- BEN GAMLA-PALM BEACH1.6 mi · 229
- CRYSTAL LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 785
Frequently asked questions
About MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,268 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 17.1:1 (74 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 43% White, 29% Hispanic, 16% Black, 7% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by PALM BEACH in Palm Beach County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.