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Enrollment
453
Elementary
DISTRICT 599 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SARASOTA·NCES 120168001835
ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1050 S EUCLID AVE, SARASOTA, FL 34237 · (941) 361-6400 · Sarasota County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL453 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 75% 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.
- A+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
13.7:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
382 students
DISTRICT 46% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 35 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 57 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 82 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 30% smaller than its 5th grade class (82).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
52.8%
FL avg 56.7% . +0.6pp since 2023
Math
64.8%
FL avg 58.9% . +6.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.8% | 64.8% |
| 2023-24 | 52.2% | 58.2% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
58.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.9%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 39% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in Florida's top 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 ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (58.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 453 | 84.3% | 58.9% |
| SPRING LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALTAMONTE SPRINGS | 505 | 85.0% | 55.4% |
| PURCELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MULBERRY | 438 | 81.7% | 35.5% |
| OSCAR J. POPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKELAND | 365 | 80.8% | 48.0% |
| IDEA LAKELAND LAKELAND | 452 | 81.9% | N/A |
| BLACKBURN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PALMETTO | 452 | 79.6% | 40.8% |
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 ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Sarasota County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.9% | #922 of 2,136 | #21 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.8% | #883 of 2,149 ▲ 128 | #17 of 30 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.8% | #1,170 of 2,149 ▼ 109 | #22 of 30 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 453 | #1,599 of 2,267 | #25 of 34 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #265 of 2,077 | #8 of 29 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.0% | #487 of 2,108 | #4 of 29 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.3% | #73 of 2,188 | #2 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.1% | #380 of 1,374 | #2 of 16 |
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
453
-3 (-1%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 600
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 453 | 33 | 13.7:1 | 84% (382) |
| 2023-24 | 473 | 39 | 12.1:1 | 84% (399) |
| 2022-23 | 476 | 39 | 12.2:1 | 87% (416) |
| 2020-21 | 456 | 33 | 13.8:1 | 84% (385) |
| 2017-18 | 589 | 52 | 11.3:1 | 93% (550) |
| 2015-16 | 680 | 52 | 13.1:1 | 93% (630) |
| 2010-11 | 624 | 44 | 14.2:1 | 91% (567) |
| 2000-01 | 814 | 52 | 15.7:1 | 78% (632) |
| 1990-91 | 600 | 34 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL runs as a low-enrollment elementary school in SARASOTA, Florida. It enrolls 453 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 5. That is 25% below the average of about 604 students for elementary schools in Florida.
SARASOTA has 60 schools and 45,246 students, and ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those schools.
The largest group at ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Hispanic students, at 50%. Smaller groups are 24% White, 16% Black, and 8% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Sarasota County is roughly 11% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 66%.
Its staff includes 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 13.7 students per teacher. Compared with the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida, this school's ratio is lower. Roughly 84% of students at ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL can receive free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 44% for public schools in Sarasota County.
ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 75% of Florida public elementary schools.
A school in Florida with ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 38.9%. ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 58.9%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Sarasota County show that median household income comes to about $83,416, roughly 41% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. The county's public schools total 63, with about 45,253 students.
Among nearby public schools, SUNCOAST SCHOOL FOR INNOVATIVE STUDIES is closest at about 0.4 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On state test proficiency, ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd in a group of 8 nearby schools.
Its NCES locale code is City: Small: the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 456 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 453.
The ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL discussion page is a place for open houses, carpools, and field trips. You can also rate the school on this page.
Sarasota County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
459,547
Census ACS
Median income
$83,416
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
63
45,253 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SARASOTA
- RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,637 students
- VENICE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,579 students
- NORTH PORT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,557 students
- SARASOTA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,359 students
- PINE VIEW SCHOOLCombined · 1,752 students
- BOOKER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,479 students
Other schools in SARASOTA
- RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,637 students
- SARASOTA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,359 students
- BOOKER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,479 students
- SARASOTA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,290 students
- SARASOTA MILITARY ACADEMYHigh · 997 students
- ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 964 students
Other Alta Vista Elementary schools
8 other US public schools in 6 states are named Alta Vista Elementary. ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 7th largest of the 9.
- ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHAINES CITY, FL · 780 students
- Alta Vista ElementaryLos Gatos, CA · 584 students
- Alta Vista ElementaryRedondo Beach, CA · 547 students
- Alta Vista Elementary SchoolPHOENIX, AZ · 531 students
- Alta Vista ElementaryPorterville, CA · 531 students
Nearby schools
- SUNCOAST SCHOOL FOR INNOVATIVE STUDIES0.4 mi · 96
- SARASOTA HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 2,359
- SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 696
- TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 698
- SARASOTA COUNTY ACCELERATION ACADEMIES1.7 mi · 106
- BROOKSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.7 mi · 724
Frequently asked questions
About ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 453 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 13.7:1 (33 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 24% White, 50% Hispanic, 16% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by SARASOTA.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.