# BOOKER MIDDLE SCHOOL

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/booker-middle-school-sarasota/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/booker-middle-school-sarasota

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120168002460`
- **School name**: BOOKER MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: SARASOTA, FL 34234
- **Address**: 2250 MYRTLE ST
- **District**: SARASOTA (LEAID `1201680`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 27.36764, -82.52365
- **Phone**: (941)359-5824

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 811
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 61
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 73.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 70.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.3% (117 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.5% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.9% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 8.3% (80 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 15
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 44.4%
- **Black/African American**: 0.7%
- **Asian**: 28.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 20.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 6.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 80.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 21.6% — 208 students
- **English Learners**: 3.9% — 37 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 133 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 19 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 9 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 4 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,134
- **Federal share**: $1,670
- **State + local share**: $12,464
### 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**: $58,017
- **Poverty rate**: 8.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 30.1%
- **Unemployment**: 1.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,394
- **Foreign-born residents**: 21.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 21.7 miles (JJ SEIFERT MACHINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 38
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.60 miles (SARASOTA MULTIPURPOSE SITE)

### 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**: 5.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **CHILDREN FIRST** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.52%)
- **BAY HAVEN SCHOOL OF BASICS PLUS** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.52%)
- **SARASOTA MILITARY ACADEMY** — 1.9 mi away, 0.45% (this school: 0.52%)
- **SARASOTA SCHOOL OF ARTS/SCIENCES** — 2.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.52%)
- **SUNCOAST SCHOOL FOR INNOVATIVE STUDIES** — 2.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.52%)

### ela proficiency
- **EMMA E. BOOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 56.5% (this school: 48%)
- **GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 51% (this school: 48%)
- **TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 53% (this school: 48%)
- **BAY HAVEN SCHOOL OF BASICS PLUS** — 1.8 mi away, 82% (this school: 48%)
- **SARASOTA SCHOOL OF ARTS/SCIENCES** — 2.1 mi away, 74% (this school: 48%)

### math proficiency
- **DREAMERS ACADEMY** — 0.2 mi away, 59% (this school: 57%)
- **BAY HAVEN SCHOOL OF BASICS PLUS** — 1.8 mi away, 73% (this school: 57%)
- **SARASOTA SCHOOL OF ARTS/SCIENCES** — 2.1 mi away, 82% (this school: 57%)
- **MARJORIE G. KINNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 67% (this school: 57%)
- **ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.0 mi away, 69% (this school: 57%)

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