PALMETTO HIGH SCHOOL

As an expansive four-year high school in PALMETTO, Florida, PALMETTO HIGH SCHOOL teaches 2,185 students from grades 8 through 12, one of the schools within MANATEE. Compared to the state average of about 1,035 students per school, that is 111% bigger than typical.

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

On the student-mix side, PALMETTO HIGH SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 36% White, 18% Black, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, PALMETTO HIGH SCHOOL has 97 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting PALMETTO HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 60% of students at PALMETTO HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Manatee County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PALMETTO HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.1%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Manatee County indicate the typical household earns roughly $78,457 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Manatee County's 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 54,208 students), PALMETTO HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PALMETTO CHARTER SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PALMETTO HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, PALMETTO HIGH SCHOOL comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.4%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PALMETTO HIGH SCHOOL has stayed largely flat, going from 2,207 students in 2018 to 2,185 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 43% to 36%.

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