Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5
Gulf Gate Elementary School, Sarasota, FL
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 596
- Teachers (FTE)
- 45.0
- Students per teacher
- 13.2
- Grades
- PK to 5
This school's ratio is 2.7 lower than the district figure of 15.9. The Florida average across schools is 18.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 6500 S Lockwood Ridge Rd, Sarasota, FL 34231
- Phone
- (941)361-6499
- District
- Sarasota County Public Schools
- County
- Sarasota County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 120168001854
School meals
- Free lunch
- 246
- Reduced-price lunch
- 81
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 32754.9% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 188Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in Sarasota County Public Schools
- Laurel Nokomis School 1,384 students
- Lamarque Elementary School 1,025 students
- Ashton Elementary School 964 students
- Atwater Elementary 892 students
- Tatum Ridge Elementary School 864 students
- Taylor Ranch Elementary School 844 students
- Toledo Blade Elementary School 841 students
- Sarasota Suncoast Academy 823 students
- Cranberry Elementary School 813 students
- Glenallen Elementary School 749 students
- Lakeview Elementary School 741 students
- Fruitville Elementary School 704 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in Sarasota
- Marjorie G. Kinnan Elementary School Manatee County Public Schools
- Florine J Abel Elementary School Manatee County Public Schools
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.