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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
544
Elementary
DISTRICT 564 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MANATEE·NCES 120123001235
SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3300 19TH ST E, BRADENTON, FL 34208 · (941) 708-6400 · Manatee County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL544 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
441 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 31 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 90 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 103 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 90 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (90).
Student demographics
54%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
26.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +3.7pp since 2023
Math
42.1%
FL avg 58.9% . +3.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.5% | 42.1% |
| 2023-24 | 22.9% | 38.3% |
% 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
33.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (33.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 544 | 81.1% | 33.9% |
| JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKELAND | 621 | 81.8% | 35.8% |
| EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLEWISTON | 477 | 78.0% | 59.7% |
| WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLEWISTON | 480 | 77.5% | 57.9% |
| CLAIR-MEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 536 | 77.2% | 30.7% |
| SPRING LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALTAMONTE SPRINGS | 505 | 85.0% | 55.4% |
Matched among Florida elementary 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 SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Manatee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.9% | #2,007 of 2,136 | #39 of 41 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.1% | #1,856 of 2,149 ▲ 19 | #37 of 41 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.5% | #2,102 of 2,149 ▲ 18 | #38 of 41 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 544 | #1,255 of 2,267 | #26 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #319 of 2,077 | #7 of 39 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.1% | #1,169 of 2,108 | #27 of 39 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.1% | #135 of 2,188 | #2 of 41 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.1% | #786 of 1,374 | #10 of 24 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
544
-69 (-11%) vs 2020
+9% since 1990-91, when it was 501
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 15.7:1
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 | 544 | 39 | 13.9:1 | 81% (441) |
| 2023-24 | 576 | 37 | 15.6:1 | 81% (465) |
| 2022-23 | 589 | 34 | 17.3:1 | 80% (469) |
| 2020-21 | 613 | 39 | 15.7:1 | 71% (435) |
| 2017-18 | 626 | 40 | 15.7:1 | 80% (500) |
| 2015-16 | 516 | 38 | 13.6:1 | 82% (425) |
| 2010-11 | 548 | 34 | 16.1:1 | 93% (508) |
| 2000-01 | 477 | 31 | 15.4:1 | 73% (350) |
| 1990-91 | 501 | 29 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
The public elementary school SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located in BRADENTON, Florida. It enrolls 544 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 5.
SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 80 schools in MANATEE, which enrolls 54,215 students in total.
The student body at SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 63% Hispanic. The rest of enrollment is 20% Black, 12% White, and 4% multiracial. Among all residents of Manatee County, the Hispanic share is about 18%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 54%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 13.9:1. The school has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school's 13.9:1 compares with an average of 17.5:1 for elementary schools in Florida. Federal data show 81% of students (441) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 30 points above the 51% average for public schools in Manatee County.
SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 6.7 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (33.9% versus 40.5%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Florida.
In Manatee County, median household income comes to about $78,457, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 35% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. The county's public schools total 86, with about 54,208 students.
SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is PALMSHORES BEHAVIOR HEALTH CENTER, about 0.6 miles away. Within five miles of SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. Of 6 schools in the immediate area with test results, SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment decreased by 69 students, from 613 to 544. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (13.9:1) than in 2020-21 (15.7:1).
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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
- PALMSHORES BEHAVIOR HEALTH CENTER0.6 mi · 88
- SOUTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 1,638
- LOUISE R JOHNSON K-8 SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES0.6 mi · 844
- WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION0.9 mi · 917
- HORIZONS ACADEMY1.0 mi · 429
- MANATEE CHARTER SCHOOL1.2 mi · 619
Frequently asked questions
About SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 544 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 13.9:1 (39 FTE teachers).
How diverse is SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 12% White, 63% Hispanic, 20% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by MANATEE in Manatee County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.