Sarasota County Schools has seven high schools and more than 44,000 students in a compact county. District-wide coverage is a finite piece of work here rather than an open-ended program.
Sarasota County Schools is headquartered at 1960 Landings Blvd in Sarasota. The district profile gives more than 44,000 students and identifies seven high schools.
We could not confirm the current shape of the district’s driver education provision from public sources.
Source: district profile.
Please note: Academy Sim Racing does not currently have simulators installed in Florida school districts. The programs described here are services Academy offers and can deploy. Any reference to a district on this site describes an area we can serve, not an existing installation or partnership.
What Academy is, and is not. Academy Sim Racing supplies racing and driving simulators and runs staffed programs with them. We are not a licensed driving school and we do not employ state-certified driver education instructors. Nothing we provide counts toward Florida licensing requirements, the supervised driving hours a learner must complete, or any state-required driver education course. Districts should deliver those through their own certified staff or an appropriately licensed provider. What we offer is supplementary practice and hazard exposure alongside them.
Sarasota is compact and comparatively small, with seven high schools and more than 44,000 students. Both facts point the same way: a district-wide program here is a finite piece of work.
Compactness matters more than it sounds. A rotation between seven schools in a geographically tight county is a fundamentally easier scheduling problem than the same rotation across a district spanning hundreds of square miles, and it costs less to run.
If you fund driver education through the Dori Slosberg Act. s.318.1215 lets a county add $5 to civil traffic penalties to support driver education, and requires that programs receiving those funds devote at least 30 percent of student instruction time to behind-the-wheel training. Simulator time is not behind-the-wheel time and cannot count toward that 30 percent. We would rather say so now than have it surface during an audit.
We bring simulators to a campus, run sessions through the day and remove everything afterwards. The simplest way for a district to trial the format.
Equipment on site for a defined period, such as a semester or a safety initiative, supported by our staff.
Where a district wants a permanent capability, that is a conversation rather than a catalog item. We are happy to have it.
Tell us the schools involved, rough student numbers and your timeframe. We will send program options and costs.