The top reported proficiency rate is 78% in Math. The lowest is 67% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Toledo Blade Elementary School
Toledo Blade Elementary sits on Geranium Avenue in North Port, a city that has been among the fastest-growing in the United States. The school serves prekindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school within the Sarasota County School District, and its enrollment puts it in a range that is sizable for an elementary campus. The surrounding community is low-density and auto-oriented, built across a very large land area of winding subdivision streets, freshwater canals, pine flatwoods, and nature preserves. Families living nearby depend on driving for most errands, and the school sits on a standalone campus serving its subdivision catchment in a manner typical of how North Port's schools are arranged.
On state assessments, Toledo Blade shows a clear pattern worth understanding. Math is the school's strongest area: third graders posted very high proficiency on the FAST Math assessment, and while scores step down in fourth and fifth grade, they remain solid and above what might be called middling. Reading tells a different story. ELA proficiency in the tested grades runs noticeably lower than math at each grade level, hovering in a range that sits closer to the middle of the state's distribution. Fifth-grade science proficiency is in a similar range to fifth-grade math. A parent focused on reading development would reasonably want to ask the school directly how it supports literacy across the grade band, particularly in the upper elementary years. No multi-year trend data was available given Florida's recent transition from the FSA to the FAST assessment, so it is not possible to say from this data how performance has moved over time.
A substantial share of students at Toledo Blade qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which points to an economically mixed population. The school is predominantly white, with Hispanic students making up the next largest group, and smaller shares of Black, multiracial, and Asian students. Data on English learner enrollment and students with individualized education programs was not reported, so those dimensions of the student population are a gap in what we can describe here.
The housing market around the school reflects broader North Port dynamics. Home values in the zip code have declined year over year while remaining above the national midpoint, and rents have held roughly flat. The price-to-income ratio is elevated, meaning homeownership takes a significant stretch of household income at current mortgage rates. Families renting in the area put a meaningful share of income toward housing costs. North Port's growth engine, the Wellen Park master-planned community, continues to bring new residents and new development, including a planned Sarasota Memorial hospital, an expanding I-75 employment corridor, and a retail and dining hub at Downtown Wellen that opened in 2023. Nearby amenities lean toward outdoor recreation: Warm Mineral Springs Park, Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park, and proximity to Myakka River State Park are the anchors of daily life for many residents.
At the district level, Sarasota County voters renewed a property tax millage in late 2024 that extends through 2030 and funds teacher recruitment and retention, arts programs, extended instructional time, and career and technical education. That stable funding commitment matters for families thinking about the district's direction over the next several years. Separately, the district approved a major structural plan in late 2025 called the Future Focused Strategic Initiative, which converts several elementary campuses to K-8 configurations and adds specialized programming, partly in response to state charter school law changes. Toledo Blade is not among the campuses named in that conversion, but families should be aware the district is in a period of active restructuring that could affect school assignments and program offerings more broadly.
No program-specific offerings were reported for Toledo Blade, so whether the school has enrichment tracks, intervention programs, or extracurricular activities beyond the standard curriculum is not something this data can address. Asking the school directly about those offerings would fill a real gap in this picture.
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