Public school / Primary
Ashton Elementary School
Sarasota, Florida
- NCES ID
- 120168001859
- District
- Sarasota
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Ashton Elementary School is a public primary school in Sarasota, Florida, run by Sarasota. It enrols 1,046 students — the 7847th largest of 4,334 public schools in Florida.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
1,046
Teachers
69.0
Students per teacher
15.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
28.4%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Sarasota
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Riverview High School2,597 students
- 2Venice Senior High School2,584 students
- 3North Port High School2,562 students
- 4Sarasota High School2,528 students
- 5Pine View School1,689 students
- 6Laurel Nokomis School1,411 students
- 7Booker High School1,309 students
- 8Sarasota Middle School1,278 students
- Enrollment+70.4%
- Teachers+81.6%
- Students per teacher−10.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−50.7%
Where this sits
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory