ISLAND VILLAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL

Set in VENICE, Florida, ISLAND VILLAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL is a mid-sized primary school, part of SARASOTA. It caters to 527 students across grades K through 8.

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

On demographics, ISLAND VILLAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL reports that White students make up the majority at 69%; the rest is composed of 16% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 3% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting ISLAND VILLAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 40% of students at ISLAND VILLAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ISLAND VILLAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.0%, the actual is 59.9%, a residual of -1.1 points.

Around the school, Sarasota County reports that median household income runs about $83,416, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 ISLAND VILLAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL is one.

LAUREL NOKOMIS SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around ISLAND VILLAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ISLAND VILLAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 73.6%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. ISLAND VILLAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. ISLAND VILLAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 21% since 2018, when it stood at 667 (now 527). Over the same period, the White share declined from 76% to 69%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

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