GARDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

GARDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a reasonably sized elementary campus in VENICE, Florida, run under SARASOTA. Current enrollment sits at 529 students spanning grades K through 5.

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

On demographics, GARDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 68% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 22% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting GARDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, GARDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.3%, the actual is 64.4%, a residual of +9.1 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Sarasota County indicate 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%. GARDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 63 public schools in Sarasota County (combined enrollment of about 45,253 students).

Nearest neighbor: SKY ACADEMY VENICE, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GARDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, GARDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 70.3%.

GARDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GARDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 13%, going from 605 students in 2018 to 529 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 76% to 68%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.