Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8
Buffalo Creek Middle School, Palmetto, FL
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 1,171
- Teachers (FTE)
- 54.0
- Students per teacher
- 21.7
- Grades
- 6 to 8
This school's ratio is 4.3 higher than the district figure of 17.4. The Florida average across schools is 18.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 7320 69th St E, Palmetto, FL 34221
- Phone
- (941)721-2260
- District
- Manatee County Public Schools
- County
- Manatee County
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Rural: Fringe
- NCES school ID
- 120123007312
School meals
- Free lunch
- 514
- Reduced-price lunch
- 65
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 57949.4% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 430Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other middle schools in Manatee County Public Schools
- W. D. Sugg Middle School 1,017 students
- Dr Mona Jain Middle School 933 students
- Martha B. King Middle School 897 students
- Braden River Middle School 797 students
- R. Dan Nolan Middle School 787 students
- Carlos E. Haile Middle School 715 students
- Rowlett Middle Academy 708 students
- Electa Lee Magnet Middle School 679 students
- Lincoln Memorial Middle School 448 students
- Oasis Middle School 49 students
- Just for Girls Middle School 33 students
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.