SARASOTA MILITARY ACADEMY

SARASOTA MILITARY ACADEMY is a reasonably sized senior high in SARASOTA, Florida, overseen by SARASOTA. The school hosts 997 students in grades 6 through 12.

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

On the student-mix side, SARASOTA MILITARY ACADEMY records that 46% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 43% White, 5% Black, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 11% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. Roughly 53% of students at SARASOTA MILITARY ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Sarasota County's rate of about 44%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SARASOTA MILITARY ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.6%; this one delivers 45.6%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Sarasota County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,416 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Sarasota County runs 63 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,253 students), of which SARASOTA MILITARY ACADEMY is one.

Nearest neighbor: SARASOTA SCHOOL OF ARTS/SCIENCES, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SARASOTA MILITARY ACADEMY. On composite proficiency, SARASOTA MILITARY ACADEMY comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 54.4%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. As a public charter, SARASOTA MILITARY ACADEMY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SARASOTA MILITARY ACADEMY has contracted 32%, going from 1,469 students in 2018 to 997 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 62% to 43%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

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