SKY ACADEMY ENGLEWOOD

Located at 701 W CENTER RD, in VENICE, Florida, SKY ACADEMY ENGLEWOOD is a low-enrollment intermediate school that enrolls 327 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by SARASOTA. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 794 students each, so SKY ACADEMY ENGLEWOOD sits 59% below that benchmark.

SKY ACADEMY ENGLEWOOD is one of 60 schools operated by SARASOTA, a district that caters to 45,246 students overall.

In terms of who attends, SKY ACADEMY ENGLEWOOD logs that 80% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Sarasota County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, SKY ACADEMY ENGLEWOOD has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.4:1. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 2% of students at SKY ACADEMY ENGLEWOOD 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 noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SKY ACADEMY ENGLEWOOD performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 80.4%, the actual is 67.3%, a residual of -13.2 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Sarasota County put the typical household earns roughly $83,416 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Sarasota County runs 63 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,253 students), of which SKY ACADEMY ENGLEWOOD is one.

Nearest neighbor: ENGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around SKY ACADEMY ENGLEWOOD. On composite proficiency, SKY ACADEMY ENGLEWOOD comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 65.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site. SKY ACADEMY ENGLEWOOD is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SKY ACADEMY ENGLEWOOD has rose 44%, going from 227 students in 2018 to 327 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 89% to 80% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

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