STUDENT LEADERSHIP ACADEMY

STUDENT LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is a small middle-grades school in VENICE, Florida, operated by SARASOTA. The school caters to 328 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 794 students per school, that is 59% below typical.

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

In terms of who attends, STUDENT LEADERSHIP ACADEMY records that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, STUDENT LEADERSHIP ACADEMY lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Roughly 19% of students at STUDENT LEADERSHIP ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Sarasota County's rate of about 44%.

With demographic context factored in, STUDENT LEADERSHIP ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 71.7%; this one delivers 80.6%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Sarasota County) reports that median household earnings sit near $83,416, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Sarasota County runs 63 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,253 students), of which STUDENT LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is one.

The closest other public school is VENICE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.9 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, STUDENT LEADERSHIP ACADEMY comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 68.2%.

STUDENT LEADERSHIP ACADEMY operates from a high-density location. STUDENT LEADERSHIP ACADEMY 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. STUDENT LEADERSHIP ACADEMY's enrollment has ticked up 11% since 2018, when it stood at 296 (now 328). Over the same period, the White share rose from 77% to 83%. Class-load math has loosened: from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2025.

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