FRUITVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

FRUITVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary campus of medium-sized scale in SARASOTA, Florida, run under SARASOTA, serveing 704 students in grades pre-K through 5.

SARASOTA runs 60 schools in total, collectively educating 45,246 students. FRUITVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, FRUITVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment; the rest consists of 29% Hispanic, 8% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Sarasota County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, FRUITVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting FRUITVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Sarasota County's rate of about 44%.

With demographic context factored in, FRUITVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.6%, the actual is 64.1%, a residual of +10.4 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Sarasota County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,416 per year, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Sarasota County runs 63 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,253 students), of which FRUITVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FRUITVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 54.6%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 4%: 733 students in 2018 compared to 704 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.