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How has FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
659
Elementary
DISTRICT 911 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. LUCIE·NCES 120177002264
FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1501 SE FLORESTA DR, PORT ST LUCIE, FL 34983 · (772) 340-4755 · St. Lucie County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL659 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 30% of Florida public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.4:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
356 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 96 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 110 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 133 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 103 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 99 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 118 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (96) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (118).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
50.9%
FL avg 56.7% . +3.8pp since 2023
Math
57.5%
FL avg 58.9% . +8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.9% | 57.5% |
| 2023-24 | 47.0% | 49.4% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
49.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (49.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 659 | 54.0% | 49.4% |
| FAIRLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT PIERCE | 653 | 57.1% | 80.4% |
| SOMERSET ACADEMY ST. LUCIE PORT ST LUCIE | 687 | 53.0% | 56.5% |
| TRIANGLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MOUNT DORA | 695 | 54.8% | 38.0% |
| RIVIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PALM BAY | 718 | 59.2% | 57.0% |
| INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS FORT MYERS | 770 | 54.9% | 32.5% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In St. Lucie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.4% | #1,360 of 2,136 | #20 of 31 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.5% | #1,215 of 2,149 ▲ 191 | #18 of 31 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.9% | #1,253 of 2,149 ▲ 51 | #16 of 31 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 659 | #838 of 2,267 | #20 of 31 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #844 of 2,077 | #3 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.6% | #103 of 2,108 | #1 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.0% | #1,130 of 2,188 | #25 of 31 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.8% | #399 of 621 | #16 of 22 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
659
+45 (+7%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 742
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 18.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 659 | 43 | 15.3:1 | 54% (356) |
| 2023-24 | 651 | 39 | 16.7:1 | 62% (406) |
| 2022-23 | 647 | 38.8 | 16.7:1 | 77% (497) |
| 2020-21 | 614 | 34 | 18.1:1 | 70% (427) |
| 2017-18 | 617 | 39 | 15.8:1 | 69% (427) |
| 2015-16 | 627 | 43 | 14.6:1 | 74% (465) |
| 2010-11 | 652 | 42 | 15.5:1 | 65% (426) |
| 2000-01 | 719 | 33 | 21.8:1 | 51% (368) |
| 1990-91 | 742 | 33 | 22.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in PORT ST LUCIE, Florida, reachable at (772) 340-4755. The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 659 students.
In ST. LUCIE, 53 schools enroll a combined 49,308 students.
Of every 100 students at FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 34 are Hispanic, the largest group. The school is also 29% Black, 29% White, 6% multiracial, and 2% Asian. That is higher than the 22% Hispanic share among all St. Lucie County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 72%.
The school's 43 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.3:1. The average for elementary schools in Florida is 17.5:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. At FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 54% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That is in line with the 57% average for public schools in St. Lucie County.
Among Florida public elementary schools, FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 30%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
Test results at FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are 4.7 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (49.4% actual, 54.1% predicted).
Looking at the county, St. Lucie County, the median household earns about $71,457 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 27%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. St. Lucie County has 57 public schools with about 50,809 students, including FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's nearest public school is MORNINGSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (about 2.4 miles). Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 54.2%; FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's is 49.4%, ranking 5th of 8.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Mid-size. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The school's student count increased 7% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. The school's ratio dropped from 18.1:1 to 15.3:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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St. Lucie County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
360,500
Census ACS
Median income
$71,457
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
57
50,809 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ST. LUCIE
- FORT PIERCE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,178 students
- TREASURE COAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,124 students
- ST. LUCIE WEST CENTENNIAL HIGHHigh · 2,914 students
- FORT PIERCE WESTWOOD ACADEMY THE W.E.S.T. PREP MAGNETHigh · 1,956 students
- PORT ST. LUCIE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,793 students
- OAK HAMMOCK K-8 SCHOOLElementary · 1,727 students
Other schools in PORT ST LUCIE
- TREASURE COAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,124 students
- ST. LUCIE WEST CENTENNIAL HIGHHigh · 2,914 students
- PORT ST. LUCIE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,793 students
- OAK HAMMOCK K-8 SCHOOLElementary · 1,727 students
- MANATEE ACADEMY K-8Elementary · 1,700 students
- ST. LUCIE WEST K-8 SCHOOLElementary · 1,662 students
Nearby schools
- MORNINGSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 653
- SOUTHPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL2.4 mi · 872
- BAYSHORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 879
- ACCELERATION ACADEMY2.4 mi · 418
- VILLAGE GREEN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES SCHOOL2.5 mi · 586
- NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL2.6 mi · 1,206
Frequently asked questions
About FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 659 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 15.3:1 students per teacher at FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 29% White, 34% Hispanic, 29% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by ST. LUCIE in St. Lucie County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.