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How has GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
654
Elementary
DISTRICT 599 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SARASOTA·NCES 120168001853
GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3450 GOCIO RD, SARASOTA, FL 34235 · (941) 361-6405 · Sarasota County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL654 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
531 students
DISTRICT 46% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 71 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 88 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 92 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 105 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 101 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 115 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (88) is 23% smaller than its 5th grade class (115).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
40.4%
FL avg 56.7% . +1.1pp since 2023
Math
48.0%
FL avg 58.9% . -7.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.4% | 48.0% |
| 2023-24 | 39.3% | 55.5% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
44.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (44.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 654 | 81.2% | 44.7% |
| WRIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT WALTON BEACH | 609 | 80.6% | 39.4% |
| TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SARASOTA | 698 | 79.4% | 45.9% |
| JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKELAND | 621 | 81.8% | 35.8% |
| SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRADENTON | 544 | 81.1% | 33.9% |
| LEWIS ANNA WOODBURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT MEADE | 593 | 78.8% | 43.2% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Sarasota County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.7% | #1,602 of 2,136 | #29 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #1,648 of 2,149 ▼ 509 | #29 of 30 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.4% | #1,764 of 2,149 ▼ 93 | #30 of 30 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 654 | #858 of 2,267 | #16 of 34 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #312 of 2,077 | #9 of 29 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.0% | #993 of 2,108 | #7 of 29 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.2% | #134 of 2,188 | #3 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.7% | #551 of 621 | #13 of 13 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
654
+74 (+13%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 734
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 12.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 654 | 47 | 13.9:1 | 81% (531) |
| 2023-24 | 636 | 50 | 12.7:1 | 86% (546) |
| 2022-23 | 644 | 51 | 12.6:1 | 86% (553) |
| 2020-21 | 580 | 48 | 12.1:1 | 83% (479) |
| 2017-18 | 643 | 55 | 11.7:1 | 90% (577) |
| 2015-16 | 637 | 47 | 13.6:1 | 88% (560) |
| 2010-11 | 749 | 53 | 14.1:1 | 83% (625) |
| 2000-01 | 891 | 48 | 18.6:1 | 61% (544) |
| 1990-91 | 734 | 45 | 16.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school for students in SARASOTA, Florida. The school offers pre-K through 5 and enrolls 654 students.
SARASOTA has 45,246 students spread across 60 schools.
More than half of the students at GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are Hispanic (60%). The rest of enrollment is 20% White, 15% Black, and 4% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Sarasota County's population at about 11%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 58%.
Its ratio of 13.9:1 is based on 47 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1, 3.6 more students per teacher than here. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 81%. The rate at public schools in Sarasota County averages 44%, lower than here.
GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (44.7%) and its predicted rate (40.5%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Florida schools.
Census data for Sarasota County show median household income comes to about $83,416, about 41% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. There are 63 public schools in the county, enrolling about 45,253, GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
Of the public schools around it, GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is closest to SARASOTA COUNTY ACCELERATION ACADEMIES, about 1.3 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 3rd out of 5 schools in its immediate area.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment figures show a rise of 74 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 13.9 students per teacher, compared with 12.1 in 2020-21.
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Sarasota County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
459,547
Census ACS
Median income
$83,416
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
63
45,253 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SARASOTA
- RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,637 students
- VENICE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,579 students
- NORTH PORT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,557 students
- SARASOTA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,359 students
- PINE VIEW SCHOOLCombined · 1,752 students
- BOOKER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,479 students
Other schools in SARASOTA
- RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,637 students
- SARASOTA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,359 students
- BOOKER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,479 students
- SARASOTA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,290 students
- SARASOTA MILITARY ACADEMYHigh · 997 students
- ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 964 students
Nearby schools
- SARASOTA COUNTY ACCELERATION ACADEMIES1.3 mi · 106
- EMMA E. BOOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 451
- TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 698
- BOOKER MIDDLE SCHOOL1.5 mi · 811
- DREAMERS ACADEMY1.7 mi · 519
- THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT1.8 mi · 15
Frequently asked questions
About GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 654 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 13.9:1 students per teacher at GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 20% White, 60% Hispanic, 15% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by SARASOTA.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.