The top reported proficiency rate is 70% in Science. The lowest is 64% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Fruitville Elementary School
Fruitville Elementary sits on Honore Avenue in Sarasota, serving children from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school in the Sarasota County district. It is a school of meaningful size for its grade band, with students spread across all grade levels from early childhood through the upper elementary years. The student body is racially and ethnically mixed, with white students making up the largest share, Hispanic students the second largest, and smaller groups of Black, multiracial, and Asian students. A majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places this school among those serving a substantial share of economically diverse families. Data on English learner rates and students with IEPs were not available in the records we reviewed.
On Florida's FAST assessments, Fruitville's third, fourth, and fifth graders perform at rates that are meaningfully above what many Florida schools report. In math, proficiency across those three tested grades runs from the upper sixties into the low seventies, with fourth grade at the strongest position. ELA results are somewhat lower than math at the third and fourth grade levels but close the gap by fifth grade, where they approach the math results. The fifth-grade science assessment, administered through the Florida Statewide Science Assessment, shows results in the same range as math, with roughly seven in ten students reaching proficiency. These are solid outcomes across all three subjects. Multi-year trend data was not available in a form that allowed year-over-year comparison, so whether performance has been climbing, holding steady, or softening is something a parent may want to ask the school directly.
Because Fruitville is an elementary school and its county comparison set contains only one district, the comparison tools that would normally position it among its neighbors could not be applied. The figures on this page carry the specific numbers; the prose here characterizes them in context.
The school operates within a district that made a durable funding commitment when voters renewed a one-mill property tax referendum in late 2024, extending it through 2030. Publicly reported coverage indicates that funding supports teacher recruitment and retention, arts, extended instruction time, and career and technical education, a meaningful resource for a family assessing the district's long-term stability. Sarasota County also approved, in late 2025, a plan called the Future Focused Strategic Initiative that will convert several elementary schools into K-8 campuses and add specialized programming. Fruitville is not among the schools named for conversion in the publicly reported accounts, but families would be wise to follow how the restructuring affects feeder patterns and program distribution over the next few years.
Sarasota itself is a Gulf Coast city with a downtown organized around Main Street, Bayfront Park, and a concentrated cluster of performing arts and cultural venues. The school sits in a residential zone east of the city center, in a part of Sarasota experiencing steady growth, with new housing development active across the broader county. Home values in this zip code sit near the state and national medians, though they have pulled back modestly over the past year, and rents have softened as well, reflecting a market absorbing a substantial wave of new supply. Rent-to-income ratios remain elevated enough that affordability is a real consideration for families deciding between renting and buying.
Sarasota Memorial Health Care System and the school district itself are among the county's largest employers, joined by Ringling College, several insurers and manufacturers, and a tourism sector publicly described as the area's largest economic contributor. Public transit runs through county-operated Breeze routes, though car dependence outside the walkable downtown core is the norm for most residents.
No data on chronic absenteeism, discipline, or graduation rates applied to Fruitville, as those measures are not reported at the elementary level or were not available in the records reviewed. Program offerings specific to this campus were not included in the data we received.
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