STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL

As a tight-knit secondary school in BRADENTON, Florida, STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL hosts 485 students from grades 6 through 12, part of MANATEE. Enrollment runs roughly 53% smaller than the state mean of about 1,035.

MANATEE comprises 80 schools with combined enrollment of 54,215 students; STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 38% Hispanic, 8% Black, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 72% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL reports 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 46% of students at STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of Florida schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 58.0%; actual is 83.8%, +25.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Manatee County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $78,457 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Manatee County runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 54,208 students), of which STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: BAYSHORE HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.5%.

The campus sits in a residential setting. STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 4%: 506 students in 2018 compared to 485 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 28% to 38% across the same window.

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