# SARASOTA SCHOOL OF ARTS/SCIENCES

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/sarasota-school-of-arts-sciences-sarasota

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120168003265`
- **School name**: SARASOTA SCHOOL OF ARTS/SCIENCES
- **Location**: SARASOTA, FL 34236
- **Address**: 717 CENTRAL AVE
- **District**: SARASOTA (LEAID `1201680`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 27.34239, -82.54296
- **Phone**: (941)330-1855

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 747
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 40
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 40.2%

## 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 5.3% (40 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2017
- **In-school suspensions**: 35
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 41.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.3% — 92 students
- **English Learners**: 2.3% — 17 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 72 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,967
- **Federal share**: $422
- **State + local share**: $10,545
### 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**: $83,448
- **Poverty rate**: 12.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 63.2%
- **Unemployment**: 3.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,162
- **Foreign-born residents**: 9.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 2.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 23.6 miles (JJ SEIFERT MACHINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 24
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.10 miles (SARASOTA LEMON AVENUE PARCELS)

### 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**: 4.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **BAY HAVEN SCHOOL OF BASICS PLUS** — 1.5 mi away, 82% (this school: 74%)
- **SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 87.5% (this school: 74%)
- **PHILLIPPI SHORES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 77% (this school: 74%)
- **SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.7 mi away, 88% (this school: 74%)
- **SARASOTA MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 6.4 mi away, 82% (this school: 74%)

### math proficiency
- **SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 92% (this school: 82%)
- **PHILLIPPI SHORES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 84% (this school: 82%)
- **SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.7 mi away, 86% (this school: 82%)
- **SARASOTA MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 6.4 mi away, 86% (this school: 82%)
- **ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.4 mi away, 91% (this school: 82%)

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