ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in BRADENTON, Florida, ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an average-sized K-5 school, operated by MANATEE. It works with 576 students across grades pre-K through 5.

MANATEE runs 80 schools in total, collectively educating 54,215 students. ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 22% Black, 19% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Manatee County as a whole is about 18% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Manatee County (around 51%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.3%.

Across the wider county, census data for Manatee County shows median household income runs about $78,457, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 86 public schools in Manatee County (combined enrollment of about 54,208 students).

MANATEE CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.3%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 6%: 613 students in 2018 compared to 576 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 24% to 19%.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.