PARRISH CHARTER ACADEMY

PARRISH CHARTER ACADEMY is a medium-sized elementary school found in PARRISH, Florida. It enrolled 891 students in kindergarten through 8 for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 48% higher than the average for elementary schools in Florida, which is about 604.

PARRISH CHARTER ACADEMY sits within MANATEE, which has 80 schools and 54,215 students.

PARRISH CHARTER ACADEMY's enrollment is 72% White. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% multiracial, and 4% Asian. The county population is about 72% White, within a few points of the school. The chance that two students picked at random at PARRISH CHARTER ACADEMY belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 45%.

Its 58 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 15.4:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Florida is 17.5:1, higher than at this school. The school's lunch program data list 23% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That rate is below the 51% average among public schools in Manatee County.

allk12 grades PARRISH CHARTER ACADEMY a C. The grade compares the school only with Florida public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.

After adjusting for student poverty, PARRISH CHARTER ACADEMY lands between the top and bottom 10% of Florida schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 56.2%; the prediction is 69.5%.

Manatee County has about 429,792 residents, and median household income is about $78,457, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 86 public schools in Manatee County, with a combined enrollment of about 54,208.

The closest public school to PARRISH CHARTER ACADEMY is BUFFALO CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 0.8 miles away. Within five miles of PARRISH CHARTER ACADEMY, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, PARRISH CHARTER ACADEMY is 6th of 9 on proficiency.

Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. This is a charter school, which is a tuition-free public school operating under a charter.

In 2020-21, federal data counted 336 students at PARRISH CHARTER ACADEMY; in 2024-25, 891. The grades served may not have been the same in both years.

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