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What's one thing SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
556
High
DISTRICT 1,364 · STATE 1,035
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SARASOTA·NCES 120168007003
SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL
4650 BENEVA RD, SARASOTA, FL 34233 · (941) 921-3981 · Sarasota County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL556 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
19.2:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.1:1 · STATE 23.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
175 students
DISTRICT 46% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 143 | 26% |
| Grade 10 | 131 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 153 | 28% |
| Grade 12 | 129 | 23% |
Student demographics
48%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
88.5%
FL avg 56.7% . -4.6pp since 2023
Math
74.0%
FL avg 58.9% . -4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 88 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 88.5% | 74.0% |
| 2023-24 | 93.1% | 78.0% |
% 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
88.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 88% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 65% 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 23 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 SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL
SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (88.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL this school | 556 | 31.5% | 88.0% |
| INDIAN RIVER CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL VERO BEACH | 682 | 30.4% | 65.4% |
| RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE SEMINOLE | 546 | 35.7% | 58.1% |
| Q.I. ROBERTS JR. - SR. HIGH SCHOOL FLORAHOME | 537 | 35.2% | 85.2% |
| WENDELL KRINN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL NEW PORT RICHEY | 765 | 37.5% | 70.4% |
| STATE COLLEGE OF FLA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL-VENICE VENICE | 290 | 32.8% | 78.1% |
Matched among Florida high 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 SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Sarasota County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 88.0% | #27 of 555 | #1 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.0% | #54 of 549 ▼ 14 | #3 of 8 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 88.5% | #29 of 559 ▼ 21 | #1 of 8 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 556 | #477 of 830 | #7 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.2:1 | #126 of 575 | #3 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.4% | #418 of 594 | #6 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.5% | #463 of 630 | #6 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.7% | #278 of 289 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high 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
556
+5 (+1%) vs 2020
+28% since 2010-11, when it was 435
Student : Teacher
19.2:1
was 20.4:1
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 | 556 | 29 | 19.2:1 | 31% (175) |
| 2023-24 | 566 | 29 | 19.5:1 | 37% (209) |
| 2022-23 | 585 | 28 | 20.9:1 | 37% (217) |
| 2020-21 | 551 | 27 | 20.4:1 | 35% (194) |
| 2017-18 | 560 | 26 | 21.5:1 | 43% (241) |
| 2015-16 | 570 | 23 | 24.8:1 | 36% (205) |
| 2010-11 | 435 | 21 | 20.7:1 | 40% (176) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL.
About SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL
SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL is a small high school found in SARASOTA, Florida. Federal data show 556 students enrolled in grades 9 through 12 in 2024-25. On average, high schools in Florida enroll around 1,035, and this school is 46% below that mark.
SARASOTA is the district for SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL. It has 60 schools and 45,246 students.
More than half of the students at SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL are White (68%). The next largest groups are 23% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. In Sarasota County overall, about 82% of residents are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL scores 48%.
Classroom staffing at SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL totals 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 19.2:1. The average for high schools in Florida is 23.5:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL is about 31%. On average, public schools in Sarasota County report 44%.
SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL outperforms its prediction by 22.6 points. The model expects 65.4% for a school with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Florida; the school's rate is 88.0%.
The county, Sarasota County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $83,416 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 41%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Counting SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL, Sarasota County has 63 public schools.
SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL's nearest public school is SARASOTA VIRTUAL ACADEMY (VIRTUAL FRANCHISE) (less than a tenth of a mile). In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 6 closest schools with test data, this one included, SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on average proficiency.
SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 556, starting from 551. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 20.4:1 in 2020-21 to 19.2:1 in 2024-25.
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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
Nearby schools
- SARASOTA VIRTUAL ACADEMY (VIRTUAL FRANCHISE)0.1 mi · 12
- SARASOTA VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION PROGRAM0.1 mi · 103
- TRIAD0.2 mi · 77
- WILKINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 422
- RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL1.3 mi · 2,637
- PHILLIPPI SHORES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 696
Frequently asked questions
About SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHow large is SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL?
SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 556 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL serve?
SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 19.2:1 students per teacher at SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 68% White, 23% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL in?
SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL is part of SARASOTA.
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