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Enrollment
698
Elementary
DISTRICT 599 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SARASOTA·NCES 120168001849
TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2863 8TH ST, SARASOTA, FL 34237 · (941) 361-6433 · Sarasota County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL698 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
554 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 63 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 101 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 126 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 99 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 99 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 100 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 110 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (101) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (110).
Student demographics
53%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
44.7%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.6pp since 2023
Math
48.2%
FL avg 58.9% . +6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.7% | 48.2% |
| 2023-24 | 39.0% | 42.2% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
45.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 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 TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (45.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 698 | 79.4% | 45.9% |
| GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SARASOTA | 654 | 81.2% | 44.7% |
| JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKELAND | 621 | 81.8% | 35.8% |
| ROBERT H. PRINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRADENTON | 721 | 74.6% | 41.1% |
| WRIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT WALTON BEACH | 609 | 80.6% | 39.4% |
| BRYAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PLANT CITY | 618 | 74.1% | 45.0% |
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 TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Sarasota County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.9% | #1,529 of 2,136 | #28 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.2% | #1,646 of 2,149 ▲ 97 | #28 of 30 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.7% | #1,558 of 2,149 ▲ 124 | #27 of 30 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 698 | #702 of 2,267 | #13 of 34 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #258 of 2,077 | #7 of 29 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.1% | #1,222 of 2,108 | #13 of 29 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.4% | #160 of 2,188 | #4 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.0% | #1,168 of 1,374 | #14 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
698
+10 (+1%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 925
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 12.5:1
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 | 698 | 51 | 13.7:1 | 79% (554) |
| 2023-24 | 690 | 52 | 13.3:1 | 83% (570) |
| 2022-23 | 665 | 48 | 13.8:1 | 84% (557) |
| 2020-21 | 688 | 55 | 12.5:1 | 83% (573) |
| 2017-18 | 735 | 60 | 12.3:1 | 91% (669) |
| 2015-16 | 695 | 54 | 12.9:1 | 90% (624) |
| 2010-11 | 626 | 44 | 14.2:1 | 89% (559) |
| 2000-01 | 792 | 48 | 16.5:1 | 75% (596) |
| 1990-91 | 925 | 53 | 17.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public medium-sized elementary school in SARASOTA, Florida. A federal count lists 698 students at the school, in pre-K through 5.
The district for TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is SARASOTA, with 60 schools and 45,246 students.
TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment is 65% Hispanic. The next largest groups are 18% White, 11% Black, and 5% multiracial. In Sarasota County overall, about 11% of residents are Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 53%.
Staffing totals 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.7:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 79%. The gap from the 44% average for public schools in Sarasota County is 35 points.
A school with TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in Florida is predicted to score 41.4%. TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 45.9%, 4.5 points above that line.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Sarasota County show that median household income is about $83,416, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 63 public schools in Sarasota County, with a combined enrollment of about 45,253.
SARASOTA COUNTY ACCELERATION ACADEMIES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 4th of 7.
In the federal locale system, TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is coded City: Small, for schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (688) and 2024-25 (698). The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 12.5:1 in 2020-21 to 13.7:1 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
Other Tuttle Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Tuttle Elementary. TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- Tuttle Elementary SchoolTuttle, OK · 359 students
Nearby schools
- SARASOTA COUNTY ACCELERATION ACADEMIES0.8 mi · 106
- EMMA E. BOOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 451
- ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 453
- SUNCOAST SCHOOL FOR INNOVATIVE STUDIES1.4 mi · 96
- GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 654
- SARASOTA HIGH SCHOOL1.6 mi · 2,359
Frequently asked questions
About TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 698 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 13.7:1 students per teacher at TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 18% White, 65% Hispanic, 11% Black, 0% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
TUTTLE 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.