Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5
James Tillman Elementary Magnet School, Palmetto, FL
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 614
- Teachers (FTE)
- 37.0
- Students per teacher
- 16.6
- Grades
- PK to 5
This school's ratio is about the same as 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
- 1415 29th St E, Palmetto, FL 34221
- Phone
- (941)723-4833
- District
- Manatee County Public Schools
- County
- Manatee County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 120123001239
School meals
- Free lunch
- 434
- Reduced-price lunch
- 15
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 44973.1% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 434Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
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 elementary schools in Manatee County Public Schools
- Barbara a Harvey Elementary School 1,356 students
- B.D. Gullett Elementary School 1,314 students
- Annie Lucy Williams Elementary School 981 students
- William Monroe Rowlett Academy for Arts and Communication 917 students
- Parrish Charter Academy 891 students
- Virgil Mills Elementary School 863 students
- Imagine Charter School at North Manatee 853 students
- Louise R Johnson K-8 School of International Studies 844 students
- Robert Willis Elementary School 785 students
- Gene Witt Elementary School 742 students
- Freedom Elementary School 736 students
- Robert H. Prine Elementary School 721 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.