SARASOTA ACADEMY OF THE ARTS

Set in SARASOTA, Florida, SARASOTA ACADEMY OF THE ARTS is an one-room-style elementary campus, run under SARASOTA. It hosts 193 students across grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 68% below the state mean of about 604.

SARASOTA runs 60 schools in total, collectively educating 45,246 students. SARASOTA ACADEMY OF THE ARTS is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, SARASOTA ACADEMY OF THE ARTS reports that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 37% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, SARASOTA ACADEMY OF THE ARTS has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.2:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 55% of students at SARASOTA ACADEMY OF THE ARTS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Sarasota County (around 44%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, SARASOTA ACADEMY OF THE ARTS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.4%, the actual is 49.7%, a residual of -3.6 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Sarasota County indicate median household income runs about $83,416, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. SARASOTA ACADEMY OF THE ARTS is one of 63 public schools in Sarasota County (combined enrollment of about 45,253 students).

The closest other public school is MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SARASOTA ACADEMY OF THE ARTS. On composite proficiency, SARASOTA ACADEMY OF THE ARTS comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 54.2%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting. As a public charter, SARASOTA ACADEMY OF THE ARTS runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SARASOTA ACADEMY OF THE ARTS has ticked down 16%, going from 229 students in 2018 to 193 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 69% to 49% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 10.0:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

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