BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a mid-sized primary school in SARASOTA, Florida, part of SARASOTA. Current enrollment sits at 590 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

SARASOTA comprises 60 schools with combined enrollment of 45,246 students; BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 32% Hispanic, 12% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Sarasota County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Sarasota County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 58.3%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Sarasota County indicate median household income runs about $83,416, 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), BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 64.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 13%: 678 students in 2018 compared to 590 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 26% to 32%.

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