ROWLETT MIDDLE ACADEMY

ROWLETT MIDDLE ACADEMY is a mid-sized 6-8 campus in BRADENTON, Florida, overseen by MANATEE. The school caters to 708 students in grades 6 through 8.

Within MANATEE, which oversees 80 schools and 54,215 students, ROWLETT MIDDLE ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ROWLETT MIDDLE ACADEMY records that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 31% Hispanic, 11% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Manatee County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, ROWLETT MIDDLE ACADEMY has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.1:1. The state averages about 19.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, ROWLETT MIDDLE ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.6%, the actual is 71.8%, a residual of +13.2 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Manatee County shows the typical household earns roughly $78,457 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Manatee County runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 54,208 students), of which ROWLETT MIDDLE ACADEMY is one.

JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ROWLETT MIDDLE ACADEMY comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 41.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area. As a public charter, ROWLETT MIDDLE ACADEMY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. ROWLETT MIDDLE ACADEMY's enrollment has increased 138% since 2018, when it stood at 297 (now 708). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 today.

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