MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in SARASOTA, Florida, MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL is a reasonably sized middle-grades school, run under SARASOTA. It enrolls 693 students across grades 6 through 8.

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

In terms of who attends, MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that 43% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 35% Hispanic, 15% Black, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 61% of students at MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Sarasota County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 53.5%, a residual of +3.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Sarasota County) records that median household earnings sit near $83,416, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Sarasota County's 63 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,253 students), MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

FRUITVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 53.6%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL has shrank 6%, going from 736 students in 2018 to 693 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 53% to 43% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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