The top reported proficiency rate is 43% in English language arts. The lowest is 36% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Sarasota Virtual Instruction Program
Sarasota Virtual Instruction Program is a public, non-charter school operated by Sarasota County Schools that serves students from kindergarten through twelfth grade entirely online. It is formally listed at an address in Sarasota, but the school's defining characteristic is that students learn remotely. The enrollment is quite small, with the vast majority of students concentrated in the middle and upper grades. Younger grades carry only a handful of students, and some grade levels have single-digit or near-zero counts. This is not a school built around a physical campus or a traditional peer environment; it is a distance-learning option for families who need or prefer that structure.
Because the school is so small, Florida's state testing system suppresses most of its reported results to protect student privacy. The only grade levels with publicly released FAST proficiency figures are eighth grade, where math and ELA results land in the lower-to-mid range, and eighth-grade science, which comes in somewhat below the ELA and math figures. No data is available for grades five, six, or seven, and the high school grades were not reported in the state assessment data provided. Interpreting these numbers requires extra care. Virtual instruction programs tend to draw a different student population than neighborhood schools, including students managing medical needs, scheduling constraints, competitive athletics, or other circumstances that make a traditional school setting difficult. Comparing the raw proficiency figures here to a conventional school's numbers without that context would be misleading, and parents may want to ask the program directly how its students are progressing and what supports are available when a student falls behind.
A graduation rate was not available in the data provided. Free and reduced-price lunch participation data, IEP rates, and English learner counts were also not reported, so the economic and special-population picture of the student body is not something this profile can describe. The student body, where demographic data is available, is predominantly white, with Hispanic students making up a meaningful share and small numbers of Asian and multiracial students.
Program details, course offerings, staffing ratios, and attendance or discipline data were not available in what was provided. Families considering enrollment would want to ask the school specifically about how instruction is delivered, what courses are available at each grade level, how students interact with teachers and each other, and what the school's expectations are around pacing and accountability.
The Sarasota County Schools district context is worth knowing. Voters recently renewed the district's property tax millage for several more years, and the funding goes toward teacher recruitment, arts, and career and technical education programs. Separately, the district approved a plan in late 2025 to convert several elementary schools into K-8 campuses and add STEAM and Cambridge programming across a number of sites. Those changes apply to the district's brick-and-mortar schools and may not directly shape the virtual program's offerings, but they signal an active period of restructuring that families tracking school options in the district should follow.
On the housing side, Sarasota sits in one of Florida's faster-growing coastal metro areas. Home values in the zip code that covers the school's listed address are above the national median, though they have declined modestly over the past year. Rents have also softened slightly. The broader Sarasota market is absorbing a substantial wave of new multifamily supply, and vacancy has risen to its highest point in roughly a decade, which has given renters somewhat more leverage than in recent years. Anyone choosing where to live while enrolling a child in the virtual program has a geographically flexible choice, since the school does not require proximity to a specific building.
For a family whose child needs a flexible, fully remote public school option within Sarasota County, this program exists to fill that role. The thin public data makes it hard to form a complete academic picture, and a parent would benefit from a direct conversation with the program about curriculum depth, teacher contact, and student outcomes before making this choice.
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