Team Success a School of Excellence, Bradenton FL

Original Research by School Decision on Team Success a School of Excellence

Team Success A School of Excellence is a charter school in Bradenton, Florida, serving students from kindergarten through twelfth grade on 13th Avenue East. As a charter, it operates outside the Manatee County district's traditional attendance zones, so families choose it rather than being assigned to it. The enrollment is substantial for a school covering this wide a grade span, with students distributed fairly evenly from kindergarten through eighth grade and a noticeable taper in the upper high school years, which is worth watching.

The student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic, with smaller shares of Black and white students. A large majority of enrolled students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing this school clearly in a high-need economic context. Data on English learner and special education identification rates were not available in the data provided, so families with children who may need those services should ask the school directly.

State testing results from Florida's FAST assessments tell a mixed story. In math, results across the tested grades from third through eighth are in the moderate range, with most grades sitting roughly around half of students reaching proficiency and eighth grade coming in somewhat below that. That pattern is meaningful and a parent may want to ask the school how it supports students who are not yet at grade level, particularly as they move into middle school. In ELA, the picture is weaker and more concerning. Proficiency rates across the tested grades run notably low, with several elementary grades in particular well below where most families would hope to see them. The gap between the school's math performance and its reading performance is pronounced, and reading development from the early grades forward is the kind of thing a parent would want to explore with the school in depth before enrolling a young child. Science results, reported for fifth and eighth grade, sit in the moderate range, with eighth grade performing better than fifth. No multi-year trend data was available, so whether these figures represent improvement, decline, or stability over time cannot be determined from what was provided.

Because the comparison data for this school's county involves only a single district, no meaningful peer positioning could be calculated. Graduation rate and chronic absenteeism data were not reported for this school.

Program details, AP or dual-enrollment offerings, career pathways, and extracurricular information were not included in the data provided. For a school serving students through twelfth grade, the question of what the high school program actually offers in terms of college preparation, vocational tracks, or dual credit is an important one to raise directly with the school, especially given that the upper grades enroll fewer students than the lower grades.

The school sits within the Manatee County school district context, where voters recently renewed a property tax measure that funds, among other things, charter school allocations alongside teacher supplements, STEM and career and technical programs, and school safety infrastructure. The district has also installed AI-based weapon-detection systems at all high schools and selectively at middle schools following campus security incidents. Team Success, as a charter operating within Manatee County, exists alongside a district that is growing quickly and actively rezoning attendance boundaries, though those zoning changes do not directly affect charter enrollment.

Bradenton itself is a city of real texture. The downtown along the Manatee River carries a walkable core with the Riverwalk, arts venues, a performing arts center, the Bishop Museum of Science and Nature, and the Village of the Arts, a live-work district of early-twentieth-century bungalows. Beyond downtown, the city is primarily auto-oriented with major commercial corridors. The area is growing, with substantial new apartment construction underway regionally. Housing values near the school have pulled back modestly from recent highs, and current prices come in below the Florida statewide benchmark, though the rent-to-income burden remains real for families in the income range that characterizes much of this school's population. Publicly reported information notes that the downtown Central Library's future is uncertain following hurricane damage and redevelopment pressure, which is worth following for families who rely on it.

What Team Success offers is a K-12 charter pathway in a community with significant economic need. The math scores are in a moderate range while ELA scores are a genuine soft spot, and a family considering enrollment would do well to visit, ask about literacy instruction and intervention, and look carefully at what the high school years provide.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

>=80%Cohort of 26 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

867 schools plotted. 183 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grade 355%

School 55% · District 62% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 452%

School 52% · District 57% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▼ 9 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 553%

School 53% · District 59% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 654%

School 54% · District 61% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 39 pts below county median

Grade 757%

School 57% · District 45% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▲ 15 pts above county median

Grade 843%

School 43% · District 57% · ▼ 14 pts below district

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 327%

School 27% · District 52% · ▼ 25 pts below district

▼ 29 pts below state median · ▼ 21 pts below county median

Grade 418%

School 18% · District 54% · ▼ 36 pts below district

▼ 36 pts below state median · ▼ 36 pts below county median

Grade 527%

School 27% · District 54% · ▼ 27 pts below district

▼ 27 pts below state median · ▼ 20 pts below county median

Grade 624%

School 24% · District 53% · ▼ 29 pts below district

▼ 36 pts below state median · ▼ 31 pts below county median

Grade 732%

School 32% · District 52% · ▼ 20 pts below district

▼ 23 pts below state median · ▼ 21 pts below county median

Grade 837%

School 37% · District 52% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 17 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Science

Grade 537%

School 37% · District 52% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Grade 852%

School 52% · District 50% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

This schoolMANATEE, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income26%Higher-income33%7 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income17%Higher-income23%6 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income27%Higher-income24%4 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income33%Higher-income30%3 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income38%Higher-income27%11 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income54%Higher-income59%6 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income51%Higher-income62%11 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income52%Higher-income59%7 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income53%Higher-income73%20 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income43%Higher-income46%3 pp gap