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Enrollment
693
Middle
DISTRICT 721 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SARASOTA·NCES 120168001844
MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL
701 MCINTOSH RD, SARASOTA, FL 34232 · (941) 361-6520 · Sarasota County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL693 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 56% of Florida public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.0:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
424 students
DISTRICT 46% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 221 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 240 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 232 | 33% |
Student demographics
67%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
53.7%
FL avg 56.7% . +0.5pp since 2023
Math
57.2%
FL avg 58.9% . +1.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.7% | 57.2% |
| 2023-24 | 53.1% | 55.9% |
% 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
53.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL
MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (53.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 693 | 61.2% | 53.5% |
| BROOKSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL SARASOTA | 724 | 59.7% | 57.6% |
| BAYONET POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL NEW PORT RICHEY | 668 | 62.7% | 34.5% |
| SEBASTIAN RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL SEBASTIAN | 775 | 61.4% | 57.8% |
| BOK ACADEMY LAKE WALES | 640 | 64.2% | 55.8% |
| CHASCO MIDDLE SCHOOL PORT RICHEY | 622 | 64.3% | 37.2% |
Matched among Florida middle 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 MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Sarasota County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.5% | #281 of 560 | #10 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.2% | #282 of 560 ▼ 23 | #10 of 11 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.7% | #281 of 560 ▼ 63 | #9 of 11 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 693 | #379 of 584 | #8 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.1:1 | #46 of 547 | #5 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.9% | #115 of 553 | #1 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.2% | #155 of 565 | #3 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.8% | #305 of 379 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle 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
693
-88 (-11%) vs 2020
-40% since 1990-91, when it was 1,146
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
was 15.6:1
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 | 693 | 43 | 16.1:1 | 61% (424) |
| 2023-24 | 761 | 55 | 13.8:1 | 65% (491) |
| 2022-23 | 851 | 52 | 16.4:1 | 64% (542) |
| 2020-21 | 781 | 50 | 15.6:1 | 58% (453) |
| 2017-18 | 736 | 55 | 13.4:1 | 66% (486) |
| 2015-16 | 677 | 50 | 13.5:1 | 59% (402) |
| 2010-11 | 867 | 54 | 16.1:1 | 54% (466) |
| 2000-01 | 1,257 | 66 | 19.1:1 | 33% (418) |
| 1990-91 | 1,146 | 65 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL
MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL is a medium-sized middle school serving families in SARASOTA, Florida. The school's 693 students are in grades 6 through 8.
SARASOTA enrolls 45,246 students, and its 60 schools include MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL.
MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has no majority group, and White students are the largest at 43%. The remaining students are 35% Hispanic, 15% Black, and 6% multiracial. Among people living in Sarasota County, the White share is about 82%. The chance that two students picked at random at MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 67%.
The school reports 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 16.1 students per teacher. The 19.6:1 average for middle schools in Florida is higher than this school's figure. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 61%. The gap from the 44% average for public schools in Sarasota County is 17 points.
Measured against Florida public middle schools, MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL receives a B. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Schools in Florida with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 50.5%. MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 53.5%.
Among Sarasota County residents, median household income is about $83,416, about 41% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 63 public schools in Sarasota County, which together enroll about 45,253 students.
The school nearest to MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL is FRUITVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, at a distance of about 0.6 miles. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL is 4th among 7 schools close by.
NCES describes the area around MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 781 in 2020-21 and 693 in 2024-25, a decrease of 88 students.
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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
Other Mcintosh Middle schools
One other US public school is named Mcintosh Middle. MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- McIntosh Middle School - 03McIntosh, SD · 44 students
Nearby schools
- FRUITVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 704
- SARASOTA ACADEMY OF THE ARTS0.7 mi · 193
- BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 590
- THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT1.3 mi · 15
- SARASOTA COUNTY ACCELERATION ACADEMIES2.0 mi · 106
- TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.7 mi · 698
Frequently asked questions
About MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL?
MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 693 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 16.1:1 (43 FTE teachers).
How diverse is MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL?
MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 43% White, 35% Hispanic, 15% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL?
MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by SARASOTA in Sarasota County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.