BOOKER MIDDLE SCHOOL

Located at 2250 MYRTLE ST, in SARASOTA, Florida, BOOKER MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school that works with 811 students (grades 6 through 8), run under SARASOTA.

Across the 60 schools in SARASOTA (45,246 students total), BOOKER MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BOOKER MIDDLE SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 20% White, 19% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Sarasota County as a whole is about 11% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting BOOKER MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Sarasota County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, BOOKER MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.8%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Sarasota County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $83,416 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Sarasota County's 63 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,253 students), BOOKER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is DREAMERS ACADEMY, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BOOKER MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 49.7%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BOOKER MIDDLE SCHOOL has rose 3%, going from 789 students in 2018 to 811 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 34% to 51%.

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