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Sarasota County School District

Florida · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 1201680 · sarasotacountyschools.net · (941) 927-9000

Sarasota County is the only school district serving 22 of the 28 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 4 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 2. It covers 253,231 homes and 434,006 residents. By homes covered it ranks 13th of the 67 districts in Florida.

Where this district is the answer, and where it is not

253,231 homes hold 434,006 residents, about 1.7 people each. Where households are small, a district's share of the homes overstates its share of the children, and this page counts homes.

  • Homes inside the boundary253,231
  • Residents434,006
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches28
  • Where it is the only district22
  • Where it shares with another district4
  • Where it holds under half a percent2
  • Land area556 square miles
  • Homes per square mile455

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 34293 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 34266 it holds 19 homes, under half a percent. Same district, opposite answers, and a lookup that names it without the share tells the second household the same thing as the first.

  • ZIP Code 34293 · North Port, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34231 · Gulf Gate, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34232 · Fruitville, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34285 · Venice, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34287 · North Port, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34238 · Palmer Ranch, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34275 · Laurel, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34236 · Sarasota, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34292 · Venice, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34242 · Siesta Key, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34234 · Sarasota, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34233 · Bee Ridge, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34286 · North Port, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34237 · Sarasota, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34235 · The Meadows, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34239 · Sarasota, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34240 · Lakewood Ranch, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34241 · Lake Sarasota, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34288 · North Port, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34229 · Osprey, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34291 · North Port, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34289 · North Port, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34223 · Englewood, Florida77% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34228 · Longboat Key, Florida64% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34243 · Whitfield, Florida15% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34251 · Old Miakka, Florida1.6% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34224 · Englewood, Florida25 homes, under half a percent
  • ZIP Code 34266 · Southeast Arcadia, Florida19 homes, under half a percent

What an answer of one district name misses here

Sarasota County is the largest district in 24 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 6,746 of the 257,485 homes those areas hold — though in 22 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

ZIP Code 34228 · Longboat Key, Florida is a two-district area: 6,258 of its 9,744 homes are inside Sarasota County, and the other 3,486 homes are with Manatee County. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 34223 · Englewood, Florida the split runs 10,925 to 3,260 and the larger part is Sarasota County's: the rest is 3,260 homes with Charlotte County.

In ZIP Code 34229 · Osprey, Florida the single-name answer is the true one: Sarasota County holds all 4,451 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

ZIP Code 34231 · Gulf Gate, Florida is another area where one name covers everything — 18,375 homes, all of them inside Sarasota County.

Sarasota County reaches into ZIP Code 34243 · Whitfield, Florida with 2,408 of its 16,309 homes, behind Manatee County. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 2,408 homes.

Sarasota County is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 34251 · Old Miakka, Florida — Manatee County leads it — and Sarasota County holds 40 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Sarasota County runs pre-K through grade 12 itself, so an address it holds sees no change of authority between grade school and high school. The districts listed below are the ones that take the other homes in the ZIP Code areas it shares — Manatee County, Charlotte County and DeSoto County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

  • Manatee County School District19,875 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Charlotte County School District14,165 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • DeSoto County School District11,918 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Sarasota County in the same ZIP Code areas: Manatee County and Charlotte County. A single-name lookup for one of those areas has to choose between them, and the choice is right for some addresses and wrong for others.

  • Manatee County School District3 shared ZIP areas
  • Charlotte County School District1 shared ZIP area

Sarasota County and Manatee County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 34228 · Longboat Key, Florida
  • ZIP Code 34243 · Whitfield, Florida
  • ZIP Code 34251 · Old Miakka, Florida

Sarasota County and Charlotte County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 34223 · Englewood, Florida

Have a street address?

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What to do next

Ask the district office to confirm your street address: look on its site for a school locator, a find my school tool or an attendance zone map, or call the office.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: in 4 of the 28 ZIP Code areas Sarasota County reaches, at least one other district holds a real share of the homes as well, and the line between them runs along streets. Only the district can say which side of that line an address is on.

District websites and phone numbers here come from the NCES Common Core of Data directory, 2024-25 school year, filed under the same district ID as the Census boundary files. Where it lists no usable website, none is printed rather than guessed.

If a house purchase depends on the answer, ask the district itself for written confirmation of that exact address. A listing is not a district record, and neither is this page.

Where these numbers come from

The homes were counted in the 2020 Census and the district lines are the 2026 boundary file, so a fast-growing area may have changed since; ZIP Codes here are the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Areas; a share is a share of homes, not the chance that one address is in a district; and a district is not a school attendance zone. Every source, file and caveat is on the method page.