FOREST GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL

FOREST GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the middle-of-the-pack middle schools in FORT PIERCE, Florida, part of ST. LUCIE, with 855 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Within ST. LUCIE, which oversees 53 schools and 49,308 students, FOREST GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, FOREST GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is Black (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 37% Hispanic, 18% White, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, FOREST GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL lists 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.4:1. The state averages about 19.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, FOREST GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 41.7%, a residual of -8.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for St. Lucie County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,457 per year, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across St. Lucie County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,809 students), FOREST GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: FORT PIERCE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, around 1.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, FOREST GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 54.4%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 836 students in 2018 compared to 855 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 in 2025.

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