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What advice would you give to incoming students at WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION?
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Enrollment
917
Elementary
DISTRICT 564 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MANATEE·NCES 120123004375
WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION
3500 9TH ST E, BRADENTON, FL 34208 · (941) 708-6100 · Manatee County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL917 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 57% of Florida public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
60 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
435 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 145 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 153 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 155 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 151 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 157 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 156 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (145) is 7% smaller than its 5th grade class (156).
Student demographics
61%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
58.0%
FL avg 56.7% . -4.6pp since 2023
Math
62.1%
FL avg 58.9% . -3.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.0% | 62.1% |
| 2023-24 | 62.6% | 65.5% |
% 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
60.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION
WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION's state test result (60.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION this school | 917 | 47.4% | 60.0% |
| PINELLAS ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCE LARGO | 817 | 46.1% | 55.4% |
| CAPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CAPE CORAL | 798 | 45.1% | 65.2% |
| WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEBSTER | 690 | 46.4% | 54.5% |
| PELICAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CAPE CORAL | 963 | 49.7% | 55.6% |
| DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT MANDARIN JACKSONVILLE | 856 | 46.6% | 53.9% |
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 WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Manatee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #875 of 2,136 | #16 of 41 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.1% | #1,005 of 2,149 ▼ 279 | #22 of 41 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #920 of 2,149 ▼ 294 | #16 of 41 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 917 | #278 of 2,267 | #4 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #822 of 2,077 | #25 of 39 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.4% | #789 of 2,108 | #14 of 39 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.4% | #1,378 of 2,188 | #27 of 41 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.1% | #1,373 of 1,374 | #24 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
917
0 (0%) vs 2020
+35% since 2000-01, when it was 680
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 14.8:1
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 | 917 | 60 | 15.3:1 | 47% (435) |
| 2023-24 | 918 | 61 | 15.1:1 | 47% (430) |
| 2022-23 | 918 | 61 | 15.1:1 | 43% (397) |
| 2020-21 | 917 | 62 | 14.8:1 | 40% (370) |
| 2017-18 | 918 | 88 | 10.4:1 | 10% (92) |
| 2015-16 | 907 | 64 | 14.2:1 | 14% (130) |
| 2010-11 | 900 | 57 | 15.8:1 | 46% (413) |
| 2000-01 | 680 | 39 | 17.4:1 | 65% (441) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION.
About WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION
WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION is a large elementary school that serves part of BRADENTON, Florida. School enrollment was 917 students in 2024-25, in kindergarten through 5. The average among elementary schools in Florida is roughly 604 students; this school is 52% bigger than that.
MANATEE serves 54,215 students across 80 schools.
At WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION, White students make up 51% of the student body. It is also 33% Hispanic, 9% Black, and 5% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Manatee County is roughly 72% White. WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION's diversity index is 61%, against a US figure of 70%.
The teaching staff at WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION is 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 15.3:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. About 47% of students, or 435, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
allk12 grades WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION a B. The grade compares the school only with Florida public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
The model predicts 57.4% for a school in Florida with WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION's free or reduced-price lunch share. WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION posts 60.0%.
Federal survey data for Manatee County show that the median household income is $78,457, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 35% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. There are 86 public schools in Manatee County, enrolling about 54,208 students in all.
The closest public school to WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION is SOUTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.3 miles away. WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION comes in 3rd of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. The school is classified as a charter school in federal data.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 917 in 2020-21, 917 in 2024-25.
The discussion area below is open to posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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
- SOUTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 1,638
- PALMSHORES BEHAVIOR HEALTH CENTER0.5 mi · 88
- ROWLETT MIDDLE ACADEMY0.7 mi · 708
- SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 544
- JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER1.1 mi · 77
- TEAM SUCCESS A SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE1.3 mi · 1,441
Frequently asked questions
About WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATIONWhat is the total enrollment at WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION?
WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION enrolls approximately 917 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION serve?
WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION?
The student-to-teacher ratio at WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION is approximately 15.3:1 (60 FTE teachers).
How diverse is WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION?
WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION reports a student body of 51% White, 33% Hispanic, 9% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION?
WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION is overseen by MANATEE in Manatee County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.