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How has R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
787
Middle
DISTRICT 686 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MANATEE·NCES 120123004205
R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
6615 GREENBROOK BLVD, BRADENTON, FL 34202 · (941) 751-8200 · Manatee County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL787 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
20.2:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.8:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
29%
226 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 287 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 245 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 255 | 32% |
Student demographics
46%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
69.9%
FL avg 56.7% . +1.8pp since 2023
Math
76.3%
FL avg 58.9% . -1.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.9% | 76.3% |
| 2023-24 | 68.1% | 78.1% |
% 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
71.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.8%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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 R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (71.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 787 | 28.7% | 71.6% |
| EMERALD COAST MIDDLE SCHOOL SANTA ROSA BEACH | 872 | 26.0% | 71.3% |
| PALM HARBOR MIDDLE SCHOOL PALM HARBOR | 1,017 | 27.9% | 63.6% |
| JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL PALM HARBOR | 859 | 31.1% | 67.0% |
| BERKLEY ACCELERATED AUBURNDALE | 622 | 30.7% | 70.3% |
| NORTH NAPLES MIDDLE SCHOOL NAPLES | 909 | 30.0% | 78.9% |
Matched among Florida middle 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 R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Manatee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.6% | #78 of 560 | #2 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.3% | #99 of 560 ▼ 29 | #2 of 10 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.9% | #103 of 560 ▼ 26 | #2 of 10 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 787 | #306 of 584 | #6 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.2:1 | #360 of 547 | #6 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.2% | #415 of 553 | #10 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 28.7% | #479 of 565 | #10 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -32.5% | #40 of 379 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle 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
787
-100 (-11%) vs 2020
-9% since 2010-11, when it was 864
Student : Teacher
20.2:1
was 19.7:1
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 | 787 | 39 | 20.2:1 | 29% (226) |
| 2023-24 | 721 | 38 | 19.0:1 | 31% (220) |
| 2022-23 | 760 | 39 | 19.5:1 | 28% (210) |
| 2020-21 | 887 | 45 | 19.7:1 | 29% (259) |
| 2017-18 | 1,166 | 58 | 20.1:1 | 24% (285) |
| 2015-16 | 1,146 | 59 | 19.4:1 | 25% (282) |
| 2010-11 | 864 | 41 | 21.1:1 | 25% (213) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is a mid-sized middle school in Florida, with an address in BRADENTON. The school runs grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 787 students.
MANATEE is responsible for 80 schools, R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL included, with 54,215 students in all.
Of every 100 students at R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 71 are White. The school is also 18% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black, and 2% Asian. Among Manatee County residents, the White share is about 72%. The diversity index for R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is 46%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school's 39 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.2:1. It is about the same as the 19.6:1 average for middle schools in Florida. At R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL, 29% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. On average, public schools in Manatee County report 51%.
In Florida, R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 71.6% actual against a predicted 66.8%.
In the surrounding county, Manatee County, the median household earns about $78,457 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Manatee County has 86 public schools with about 54,208 students, including R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
GILBERT W MCNEAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 0.2 miles from R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is 4th among 9 schools close by.
Locale: City: Small. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The school shrank from 887 students in 2020-21 to 787 in 2024-25.
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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
Related schools
Other schools in MANATEE
- LAKEWOOD RANCH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,422 students
- PARRISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,266 students
- PALMETTO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,185 students
- MANATEE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTSHigh · 2,051 students
- MANATEE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,998 students
- BRADEN RIVER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,705 students
Other schools in BRADENTON
- 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
- GILBERT W MCNEAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 672
- LAKEWOOD RANCH PREPARATORY ACADEMY1.6 mi · 1,369
- ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 785
- BRADEN RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.5 mi · 547
- BRADEN RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL2.6 mi · 797
- LAKEWOOD RANCH HIGH SCHOOL3.0 mi · 2,422
Frequently asked questions
About R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 787 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 20.2:1 (39 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 71% White, 18% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of MANATEE.
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