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Alumni: what's one memory from SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
696
Elementary
DISTRICT 599 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SARASOTA·NCES 120168001848
SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1901 WEBBER ST, SARASOTA, FL 34239 · (941) 361-6420 · Sarasota County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL696 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
154 students
DISTRICT 46% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 125 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 109 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 123 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 114 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 122 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 103 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (125) is 21% larger than its 5th grade class (103).
Student demographics
41%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
85.5%
FL avg 56.7% . -3.6pp since 2023
Math
91.2%
FL avg 58.9% . -1.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 91 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 85.5% | 91.2% |
| 2023-24 | 89.2% | 92.8% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
89.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 89% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 70% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Florida's top 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 SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (89.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 696 | 22.1% | 89.2% |
| INDIALANTIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INDIALANTIC | 662 | 19.9% | 82.8% |
| CYPRESS WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PALM HARBOR | 676 | 23.1% | 79.7% |
| GILBERT W MCNEAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKEWOOD RANCH | 672 | 24.1% | 81.0% |
| OZONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PALM HARBOR | 727 | 24.6% | 82.3% |
| LONGLEAF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MELBOURNE | 578 | 23.2% | 75.7% |
Matched among Florida elementary 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 SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Sarasota County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 89.2% | #20 of 2,136 | #1 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 91.2% | #35 of 2,149 ▼ 17 | #1 of 30 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 85.5% | #56 of 2,149 ▼ 43 | #1 of 30 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 696 | #715 of 2,267 | #15 of 34 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #747 of 2,077 | #20 of 29 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.7% | #1,643 of 2,108 | #24 of 29 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.1% | #1,965 of 2,188 | #28 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.3% | #984 of 1,374 | #12 of 16 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
696
+23 (+3%) vs 2020
+15% since 1990-91, when it was 605
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 14.6:1
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 | 696 | 46 | 15.1:1 | 22% (154) |
| 2023-24 | 681 | 48 | 14.2:1 | 27% (186) |
| 2022-23 | 687 | 48 | 14.3:1 | 26% (180) |
| 2020-21 | 673 | 46 | 14.6:1 | 25% (168) |
| 2017-18 | 767 | 55 | 13.9:1 | 31% (239) |
| 2015-16 | 763 | 52 | 14.7:1 | 29% (219) |
| 2010-11 | 736 | 44 | 16.7:1 | 24% (174) |
| 2000-01 | 785 | 41 | 19.1:1 | 22% (176) |
| 1990-91 | 605 | 37 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school in Florida, located in SARASOTA. In all, 696 students attend the school in kindergarten through 5.
The district for SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is SARASOTA, with 60 schools and 45,246 students.
At SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 76% of students are White. Other students are 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Black, and 2% Asian. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 41%.
For every teacher at SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, there are about 15.1 students; the school has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Florida, 17.5:1, is higher. There are 154 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 22% of enrollment. It compares with 44% for public schools in Sarasota County.
Test results at SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are 19.1 points above what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate across its state test results is 89.2%, compared with a predicted 70.1%, which ranks in the top 10% in Florida.
In the wider Sarasota County area, the median household earns about $83,416 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 41% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shares Sarasota County with 62 other public schools.
SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's nearest public school is BROOKSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL (about 0.7 miles). Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 56.0%; SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's is 89.2%, ranking 1st of 8.
SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is coded as City: Small in federal locale data.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 3%, from 673 to 696.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on athletics, class schedules, and weather closures here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Southside Elementary schools
32 other US public schools in 20 states are named Southside Elementary. SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 7th largest of the 33.
- SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLFERNANDINA BEACH, FL · 591 students
- Southside Elementary SchoolCLEVELAND, TX · 1,016 students
- Southside Elementary SchoolColumbus, IN · 891 students
- SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSOUTHSIDE, AR · 852 students
- Southside ElementaryLebanon, TN · 806 students
Nearby schools
- BROOKSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 724
- SARASOTA HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 2,359
- ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 453
- SUNCOAST SCHOOL FOR INNOVATIVE STUDIES1.3 mi · 96
- PHILLIPPI SHORES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 696
- RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL2.0 mi · 2,637
Frequently asked questions
About SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 696 students in grades KG-05.
Is SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 46 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.1:1.
What is the student diversity at SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 76% White, 13% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by SARASOTA in Sarasota County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.