ATWATER ELEMENTARY

Located at 4701 HUNTSVILLE AVE, in NORTH PORT, Florida, ATWATER ELEMENTARY is a medium-sized elementary school that teaches 892 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under SARASOTA. That puts it 48% larger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

Within SARASOTA, which oversees 60 schools and 45,246 students, ATWATER ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, ATWATER ELEMENTARY shows that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 20% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

On the resource side, ATWATER ELEMENTARY reports 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.2:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 62% of students at ATWATER ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Sarasota County (around 44%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, ATWATER ELEMENTARY is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 50.2%; this one delivers 64.3%, a residual of +14.1 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Sarasota County) shows that median household earnings sit near $83,416, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ATWATER ELEMENTARY is one of 63 public schools in Sarasota County (combined enrollment of about 45,253 students).

WOODLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ATWATER ELEMENTARY at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 58.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. ATWATER ELEMENTARY's enrollment has climbed 25% since 2018, when it stood at 712 (now 892). Class-load math has rose: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

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