MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a sprawling elementary school in LAKE WORTH, Florida, overseen by PALM BEACH. Current enrollment sits at 1,268 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 110% bigger than the state mean of about 604.

PALM BEACH comprises 233 schools with combined enrollment of 191,505 students; MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is White (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 29% Hispanic, 16% Black, 7% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Palm Beach County as a whole is about 53% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 23% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Palm Beach County (around 45%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.5%, the actual is 71.4%, a residual of +1.9 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Palm Beach County put the typical household earns roughly $83,581 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Palm Beach County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students), MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PARK VISTA COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 63.8%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 1,303 (now 1,268). The White share of enrollment decreased from 54% to 43% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 in 2025.

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