Lakewood Ranch, FL schools
Lakewood Ranch’s public schools score below Florida’s averages: 50% of students are proficient in reading against 52% statewide, and 86% of high schoolers graduate on time against 90.3%. Kids attend B.D. Gullett Elementary School or Robert Willis Elementary School or Gilbert W McNeal Elementary School through grade 5, then Dr. Mona Jain Middle School or R. Dan Nolan Middle School and one of 14 high schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Lakewood Ranch’s School Grade: B+
The public schools Lakewood Ranch’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 68% of Florida’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Florida’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Florida only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Florida with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where Lakewood Ranch kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Below the state in reading
86% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #607 of 631 FL towns →
Two districts serve Lakewood Ranch
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Lakewood Ranch
There’s no college in Lakewood Ranch, but 9 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Arizona College of Nursing-Sarasota in University Park, 4.4 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Lakewood Ranch. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.
All 13 schools in Lakewood Ranch
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.
Schools Lakewood Ranch kids attend in other towns
Public schools in Lakewood Ranch’s districts that are located in Sarasota, Venice, North Port, Bradenton, Parrish, Palmetto and Osprey. Which one depends on your address.