# SARASOTA MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120168001837`
- **School name**: SARASOTA MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: SARASOTA, FL 34233
- **Address**: 4826 ASHTON RD
- **District**: SARASOTA (LEAID `1201680`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 27.27515, -82.47126
- **Phone**: (941)361-6464

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,290
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 74
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 22.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: FL School Grade
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: A

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 82.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.9% (104 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.2% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.2% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 7.7% (100 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 20
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 16.7%
- **Black/African American**: 2.3%
- **Asian**: 1.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 74.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 4.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 24.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.9% — 129 students
- **English Learners**: 3.7% — 48 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 74 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 16 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,804
- **Federal share**: $529
- **State + local share**: $11,274
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,843,608
- **Federal share**: 11.3%
- **State share**: 11.5%
- **Local share**: 77.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,691,726

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $68,603
- **Poverty rate**: 4.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 32.2%
- **Unemployment**: 2.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,044
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 27.9 miles (JJ SEIFERT MACHINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 10
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.34 miles (CHERRY CIDER HOUSE SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SARASOTA CO SPECIAL UTIL DIST
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.78944 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.23%)
- **SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.23%)
- **GULF GATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.23%)
- **LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.23%)
- **OAK PARK SCHOOL** — 2.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.23%)

### ela proficiency
- **SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 88% (this school: 82%)
- **SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.4 mi away, 87.5% (this school: 82%)
- **PINE VIEW SCHOOL** — 6.2 mi away, 99% (this school: 82%)
- **STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL** — 13.5 mi away, 84% (this school: 82%)

### math proficiency
- **ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 91% (this school: 86%)
- **SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.4 mi away, 92% (this school: 86%)
- **PINE VIEW SCHOOL** — 6.2 mi away, 100% (this school: 86%)
- **ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 9.8 mi away, 87% (this school: 86%)
- **STUDENT LEADERSHIP ACADEMY** — 13.5 mi away, 95% (this school: 86%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/sarasota-middle-school-sarasota
- **Performance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/sarasota-middle-school-sarasota/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/sarasota-middle-school-sarasota/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/sarasota-middle-school-sarasota/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/sarasota-middle-school-sarasota/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/sarasota-middle-school-sarasota/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/sarasota-middle-school-sarasota/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/sarasota-middle-school-sarasota/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/sarasota-middle-school-sarasota/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/sarasota-middle-school-sarasota/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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