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Manatee County, Florida

Private schools in Manatee County that take Step Up

28 of the 43 private schools in Manatee County take a Step Up scholarship. Every one of them is below, with the phone number, straight out of Florida's official state directory.

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Private school
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Unique Abilities
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PEP hybrid
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No program listed
Private school (28) Step Up's "Private School Scholarship". The paperwork calls it FTC or FES-EO. About $8,000 a year toward tuition.
Unique Abilities (28) For a child with a diagnosed disability. The paperwork calls it FES-UA. Averages about $10,000, and it is a spending account.
PEP hybrid (4) Part-time programs that pair with teaching at home. PEP on the forms.
No program listed (15) The school is in the state directory but has not told the state it takes any of them. Worth a phone call anyway — it changes.

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43 schools · sorted A–Z

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FES-EOFTCFES-UA

Ave Maria University Preparatory School Inc

3200 75Th Street West, Bradenton, FL, 34209
01-12CoedNon-Denominational
941-840-5331 Map Claim this listing
FES-EOFTCFES-UA

Bradenton Christian School

3304 43Rd Street West, Bradenton, FL, 34209
PK-12CoedNon-DenominationalAccredited: CSF
941-792-5454 Map Claim this listing

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FES-EOFTCFES-UAPEP hybrid

Family Life Community School Inc.

7002 121St Ave East, Parrish, FL, 34219
PK-08CoedNon-Denominational
941-281-6412 Map Claim this listing
No scholarship program listed

Myakka Family Christian Academy

33420 Singletary Rd, Myakka City, FL, 34251
KG-12CoedNon-Denominational
941-322-1691 Map Claim this listing
No scholarship program listed

Saint Stephen's Episcopal School

315 41St Street West, Bradenton, FL, 34209
PK-12CoedEpiscopalianAccredited: COGNIAFCIS
941-746-2121 Map Claim this listing
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Counties near Manatee

DeSoto4 Sarasota55 Charlotte13

Plenty of families cross a county line for the right school — the scholarship follows the child, not the address.

Using Step Up in Manatee County

Almost everyone calls this the Step Up scholarship. It is worth roughly $8,000 per child per year for private school, and since 2023 there has been no household income cap. 28 schools here take it. If the four different program names are confusing, here is the whole thing in one page.

Schools flagged PEP hybrid run part-time programs that pair with home instruction, which is how many homeschool families in Manatee County use two or three days of formal classes alongside their own teaching.

Call the school before anything else. Ask two questions: do you currently take my scholarship program, and do you have a seat in my child's grade. Participation and capacity both change during the year.

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Cities covered in this listing

Bradenton, Lakewood Ranch, Myakka City, Palmetto, Parrish, Sarasota, Venice

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Where this list comes from

Compiled from the Florida Department of Education's private school directory, which is built from schools' own annual survey responses under section 1002.42, Florida Statutes. The Department does not independently verify the data, and inclusion is not approval or accreditation — by the state or by us. Pulled August 2, 2026. Confirm directly with the school before making any decision. Run one of these schools? Claim your listing to add your own description.

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