VIRGIL MILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in PALMETTO, Florida, VIRGIL MILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized primary school, overseen by MANATEE. It serves 863 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 43% above the state mean of about 604.

Across the 80 schools in MANATEE (54,215 students total), VIRGIL MILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, VIRGIL MILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White, at 59% of enrollment; the rest looks like 21% Hispanic, 10% Black, 8% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 72%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 44% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, VIRGIL MILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.0%, the actual is 64.9%, a residual of +6.0 points.

In the area at large, Manatee County reports that the typical household earns roughly $78,457 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. VIRGIL MILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 86 public schools in Manatee County (combined enrollment of about 54,208 students).

Nearest neighbor: BUFFALO CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts VIRGIL MILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 54.2%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 30%: 1,232 students in 2018 compared to 863 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 64% to 59% across the same window.

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