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What's something ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
576
Elementary
DISTRICT 564 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MANATEE·NCES 120123001227
ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
5214 22ND STREET CT E, BRADENTON, FL 34203 · (941) 751-7018 · Manatee County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL576 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
74%
424 students
DISTRICT 55% · 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 | 11 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 93 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 84 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 98 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 108 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 78 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 104 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (93) is 11% smaller than its 5th grade class (104).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
34.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +8.6pp since 2023
Math
50.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +1.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.5% | 50.0% |
| 2023-24 | 25.8% | 48.7% |
% 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
36.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (36.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 576 | 73.6% | 36.3% |
| YATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRANDON | 548 | 70.3% | 31.9% |
| PALM VIEW K-8 SCHOOL PALMETTO | 606 | 75.1% | 45.9% |
| FLORINE J ABEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SARASOTA | 485 | 73.6% | 59.8% |
| JAMES TILLMAN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL PALMETTO | 614 | 73.1% | 56.0% |
| H. S. MOODY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRADENTON | 602 | 70.1% | 41.6% |
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 ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Manatee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.3% | #1,942 of 2,136 | #37 of 41 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #1,565 of 2,149 ▼ 118 | #29 of 41 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.5% | #1,959 of 2,149 ▲ 126 | #36 of 41 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 576 | #1,113 of 2,267 | #23 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #459 of 2,077 | #15 of 39 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.4% | #726 of 2,108 | #13 of 39 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.6% | #317 of 2,188 | #9 of 41 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.0% | #1,121 of 1,374 | #20 of 24 |
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
576
+45 (+8%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 761
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 15.6:1
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 | 576 | 40 | 14.4:1 | 74% (424) |
| 2023-24 | 599 | 46 | 13.0:1 | 78% (467) |
| 2022-23 | 596 | 41 | 14.5:1 | 79% (469) |
| 2020-21 | 531 | 34 | 15.6:1 | 74% (394) |
| 2017-18 | 613 | 42 | 14.6:1 | 78% (477) |
| 2015-16 | 574 | 39 | 14.7:1 | 76% (438) |
| 2010-11 | 582 | 47 | 12.4:1 | 88% (513) |
| 2000-01 | 709 | 46 | 15.4:1 | 66% (469) |
| 1990-91 | 761 | 45 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public elementary school in BRADENTON, Florida. The school teaches pre-K through 5 and enrolls 576 students.
District-wide, MANATEE has 80 schools and 54,215 students.
More than half of enrollment at ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Hispanic: 54%. The remaining shares are 22% Black, 19% White, and 4% multiracial. Manatee County as a whole is about 18% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 62%.
Classroom staffing at ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL totals 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.4:1. The average for elementary schools in Florida, 17.5:1, is higher. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 74%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Manatee County is 51%.
ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (36.3%) and its predicted rate (44.3%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Florida schools.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Manatee County show that the median household earns about $78,457 a year, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Across Manatee County, 86 public schools serve about 54,208 students.
ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is MANATEE CHARTER SCHOOL, about 1.0 miles away. Within five miles of ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 36.3% is below the 39.3% average for nearby schools.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 8%, from 531 to 576. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 15.6:1 to 14.4:1.
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Manatee County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
429,792
Census ACS
Median income
$78,457
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
86
54,208 students
Quick facts
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- PALMETTO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,185 students
- MANATEE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTSHigh · 2,051 students
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- BRADEN RIVER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,705 students
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- LAKEWOOD RANCH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,422 students
- MANATEE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,998 students
- BRADEN RIVER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,705 students
- SOUTHEAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,638 students
- TEAM SUCCESS A SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCECombined · 1,441 students
- BAYSHORE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,400 students
Nearby schools
- MANATEE CHARTER SCHOOL1.0 mi · 619
- PALMSHORES BEHAVIOR HEALTH CENTER1.4 mi · 88
- SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 544
- SOUTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL1.6 mi · 1,638
- VISIBLE MEN ACADEMY1.6 mi · 49
- BLANCHE H. DAUGHTREY ELEMENTARY1.7 mi · 719
Frequently asked questions
About ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 576 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 14.4:1 (40 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 19% White, 54% Hispanic, 22% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
ONECO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of MANATEE.
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