# SUNCOAST SCHOOL FOR INNOVATIVE STUDIES

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120168003508`
- **School name**: SUNCOAST SCHOOL FOR INNOVATIVE STUDIES
- **Location**: SARASOTA, FL 34237
- **Address**: 845 S SCHOOL AVE
- **District**: SARASOTA (LEAID `1201680`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 27.32751, -82.52553
- **Phone**: (941)952-5277

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 96
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 7
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 85.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 57.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 26.3% (49 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 6.8% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 102.9% (106 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 39.8%
- **Black/African American**: 1.6%
- **Asian**: 30.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 17.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 10.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 86.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 26.2% — 27 students
- **English Learners**: 31.1% — 32 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 33 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 17 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,385
- **Federal share**: $2,719
- **State + local share**: $10,666
### 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**: $61,583
- **Poverty rate**: 14.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 38.1%
- **Unemployment**: 3.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,566
- **Foreign-born residents**: 9.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 22.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 24.4 miles (JJ SEIFERT MACHINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 22
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.03 miles (SARASOTA URBACULTURE)

### 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**: 2.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **SARASOTA HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 62% (this school: 32%)
- **ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 58% (this school: 32%)
- **SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 87.5% (this school: 32%)
- **SARASOTA MILITARY ACADEMY** — 1.4 mi away, 47% (this school: 32%)
- **TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 53% (this school: 32%)

### math proficiency
- **SARASOTA HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 47% (this school: 39%)
- **ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 69% (this school: 39%)
- **SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 92% (this school: 39%)
- **SARASOTA MILITARY ACADEMY** — 1.4 mi away, 47% (this school: 39%)
- **TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 55% (this school: 39%)

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