PARRISH CHARTER ACADEMY

PARRISH CHARTER ACADEMY operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in PARRISH, Florida, overseen by MANATEE. Current enrollment sits at 891 students spanning grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 48% bigger than the state mean of about 604.

PARRISH CHARTER ACADEMY is one of 80 schools operated by MANATEE, a district that educates 54,215 students overall.

On demographics, PARRISH CHARTER ACADEMY lists that White students make up the majority at 72%. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 23% of students at PARRISH CHARTER ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Manatee County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PARRISH CHARTER ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 69.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 56.2%.

In the broader community, Manatee County reports that median household earnings sit near $78,457, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Manatee County's 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 54,208 students), PARRISH CHARTER ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is BUFFALO CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PARRISH CHARTER ACADEMY ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 57.1%.

PARRISH CHARTER ACADEMY operates from an outer-ring location. PARRISH CHARTER ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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