SARASOTA HIGH SCHOOL

As a high-enrollment secondary school in SARASOTA, Florida, SARASOTA HIGH SCHOOL teaches 2,359 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by SARASOTA. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so SARASOTA HIGH SCHOOL sits 128% bigger than that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, SARASOTA HIGH SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is White (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 33% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

On the resource side, SARASOTA HIGH SCHOOL reports 121 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.5:1. The state averages around 23.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 38% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SARASOTA HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.3%, the actual is 52.7%, a residual of -9.7 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Sarasota County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,416 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Sarasota County's 63 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,253 students), SARASOTA HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SUNCOAST SCHOOL FOR INNOVATIVE STUDIES, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SARASOTA HIGH SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 58.9%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. SARASOTA HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has climbed 11% since 2018, when it stood at 2,117 (now 2,359). The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 24% to 33% over that span.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.