PALMETTO CHARTER SCHOOL

PALMETTO CHARTER SCHOOL is a K-5 school of small scale in PALMETTO, Florida, run under MANATEE, enrolling 458 students in grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 24% below the state mean of about 604.

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

On the student-mix side, PALMETTO CHARTER SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 17% Hispanic, 7% Black, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Manatee County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 34% of students at PALMETTO CHARTER SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Manatee County's rate of about 51%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PALMETTO CHARTER SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of Florida schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 64.3%; actual is 84.4%, +20.1 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, census data for Manatee County shows median household income runs about $78,457, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Manatee County's 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 54,208 students), PALMETTO CHARTER SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PALMETTO CHARTER SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PALMETTO CHARTER SCHOOL at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 45.0%.

PALMETTO CHARTER SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location. PALMETTO CHARTER SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 26%: 363 students in 2018 compared to 458 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 12% to 17% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

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