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Enrollment
964
Elementary
DISTRICT 599 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SARASOTA·NCES 120168001859
ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
5110 ASHTON RD, SARASOTA, FL 34233 · (941) 361-6440 · Sarasota County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL964 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 98% of Florida public elementary schools
- A+Test 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
16.4:1
59 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
270 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 | 3 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 136 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 158 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 149 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 167 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 163 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 188 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (136) is 28% smaller than its 5th grade class (188).
Student demographics
44%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
77.1%
FL avg 56.7% . -3.6pp since 2023
Math
90.4%
FL avg 58.9% . +1.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 90 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.1% | 90.4% |
| 2023-24 | 80.7% | 88.7% |
% 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
84.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 85% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 67% 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 18 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 ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (84.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 964 | 28.0% | 84.7% |
| ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKEWOOD RANCH | 785 | 25.9% | 79.2% |
| LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SARASOTA | 741 | 28.2% | 82.2% |
| PARRISH CHARTER ACADEMY PARRISH | 891 | 23.2% | 56.2% |
| CYPRESS CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PORT ORANGE | 761 | 31.7% | 74.3% |
| GENE WITT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRADENTON | 742 | 27.9% | 80.3% |
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 ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Sarasota County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 84.7% | #60 of 2,136 | #2 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 90.4% | #44 of 2,149 ▲ 16 | #2 of 30 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.1% | #233 of 2,149 ▼ 137 | #4 of 30 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 964 | #228 of 2,267 | #3 of 34 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.4:1 | #1,251 of 2,077 | #27 of 29 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.3% | #1,566 of 2,108 | #23 of 29 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 28.0% | #1,864 of 2,188 | #26 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.5% | #1,231 of 1,374 | #16 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
964
-42 (-4%) vs 2020
+21% since 1990-91, when it was 796
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
was 14.8:1
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 | 964 | 58.6 | 16.4:1 | 28% (270) |
| 2023-24 | 982 | 65.6 | 15.0:1 | 29% (286) |
| 2022-23 | 1,046 | 69.6 | 15.0:1 | 28% (297) |
| 2020-21 | 1,006 | 68 | 14.8:1 | 25% (256) |
| 2017-18 | 999 | 66 | 15.1:1 | 30% (301) |
| 2015-16 | 922 | 57 | 16.2:1 | 31% (283) |
| 2010-11 | 819 | 52 | 15.8:1 | 32% (266) |
| 2000-01 | 1,270 | 61 | 20.8:1 | 17% (222) |
| 1990-91 | 796 | 48 | 16.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, located in SARASOTA, Florida, is a large elementary school. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 964 students on the rolls. On average, elementary schools in Florida enroll around 604, and this school is 60% above that mark.
Across its 60 schools, SARASOTA enrolls 45,246 students. ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those schools.
More than half of enrollment at ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is White: 73%. Other groups make up 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 6% Asian. Sarasota County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school's share is lower. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 44%.
Staffing at ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes to 58.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.4:1. The school's 16.4:1 compares with an average of 17.5:1 for elementary schools in Florida. On the income side, 28% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Sarasota County averages 44%, higher than here.
On the allk12 Grade, ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at A+, ahead of 98% of Florida public elementary schools.
ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of Florida schools after adjusting test results for student poverty. Actual: 84.7%. Predicted: 67.1%. Difference: 17.6 points.
Looking at the county, Sarasota County, the median household earns about $83,416 a year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Sarasota County has 63 public schools.
Measured in a straight line, SARASOTA MIDDLE SCHOOL is about 0.3 miles from ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in 2nd of 6 nearby schools on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 4% decrease, from 1,006 to 964. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 14.8:1 to 16.4:1.
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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
- TATUM RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 864 students
Other Ashton Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Ashton Elementary. ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the largest of the 3.
- Ashton Elementary SchoolAshton, WV · 270 students
- ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLASHTON, ID · 228 students
Nearby schools
- SARASOTA MIDDLE SCHOOL0.3 mi · 1,290
- IMAGINE SCHOOL AT PALMER RANCH1.4 mi · 433
- SARASOTA VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION PROGRAM2.0 mi · 103
- SARASOTA VIRTUAL ACADEMY (VIRTUAL FRANCHISE)2.0 mi · 12
- SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL2.0 mi · 556
- TRIAD2.1 mi · 77
Frequently asked questions
About ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 964 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 16.4:1 (59 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 73% White, 13% Hispanic, 1% Black, 6% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of SARASOTA.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.