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If you could change one rule at FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, what would it be?
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Enrollment
439
Elementary
DISTRICT 911 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. LUCIE·NCES 120177001928
FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1400 AVENUE Q, FORT PIERCE, FL 34950 · (772) 468-5330 · St. Lucie County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL439 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 41% 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.
- B-Beats 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
17.6:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.4:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
301 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 50%
Community
5
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 12 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 93 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (93) is 22% larger than its 5th grade class (76).
Student demographics
44%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
43.2%
FL avg 56.7% . -6.3pp since 2023
Math
51.3%
FL avg 58.9% . -5.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.2% | 51.3% |
| 2023-24 | 49.5% | 57.1% |
% 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
46.8%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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 FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (49.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 439 | 68.6% | 49.4% |
| GRATIGNY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 443 | 67.7% | 49.5% |
| LOCKHART ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 452 | 69.0% | 44.2% |
| EDISON PARK K-8 CENTER MIAMI | 441 | 71.4% | 48.5% |
| WESTWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT LAUDERDALE | 451 | 67.6% | 54.9% |
| WILLIAM FRANGUS ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 430 | 66.5% | 44.3% |
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 FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In St. Lucie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.4% | #1,366 of 2,136 | #21 of 31 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.3% | #1,497 of 2,149 ▼ 433 | #26 of 31 ▼ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.2% | #1,640 of 2,149 ▼ 439 | #26 of 31 ▼ 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 439 | #1,642 of 2,267 | #31 of 31 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.6:1 | #1,585 of 2,077 | #14 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.0% | #1,574 of 2,108 | #31 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.6% | #514 of 2,188 | #5 of 31 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.8% | #367 of 1,374 | #2 of 6 |
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
439
-66 (-13%) vs 2020
-20% since 1990-91, when it was 547
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 16.3:1
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 | 439 | 25 | 17.6:1 | 69% (301) |
| 2023-24 | 364 | 24 | 15.2:1 | 76% (278) |
| 2022-23 | 362 | 26 | 13.9:1 | 84% (304) |
| 2020-21 | 505 | 31 | 16.3:1 | 77% (389) |
| 2017-18 | 576 | 39 | 14.8:1 | 70% (406) |
| 2015-16 | 629 | 41 | 15.3:1 | 71% (445) |
| 2010-11 | 610 | 42 | 14.5:1 | 55% (338) |
| 2000-01 | 638 | 32 | 19.9:1 | 38% (241) |
| 1990-91 | 547 | 29 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Families in FORT PIERCE, Florida, are served by FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a low-enrollment elementary school. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 439 students enrolled. By comparison, elementary schools in Florida enroll about 604 students on average.
ST. LUCIE serves 49,308 students across 53 schools.
Of every 100 students at FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 72 are Black. Other reported shares: 21% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 3% White. St. Lucie County's residents are about 22% Black, 50 points below the school's share. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 44%.
There are 25 full-time-equivalent teachers at FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, giving a ratio of 17.6:1. The ratio is within a point of the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. By family income, 69% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 57% average for public schools in St. Lucie County.
On the allk12 Grade, FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at C+, ahead of 41% of Florida public elementary schools.
Schools in Florida with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 46.8%. FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 49.4%.
For St. Lucie County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $71,457 a year, roughly 27% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. Public schools in St. Lucie County number 57, with about 50,809 students.
LINCOLN PARK ACADEMY is about 0.6 miles away, making it the nearest public school. FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 4th of 7.
In the federal locale system, FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment figures show a drop of 66 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. Its ratio of students to teachers was 16.3:1 in 2020-21, and 17.6:1 in 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 FORT PIERCE
- FORT PIERCE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,178 students
- FORT PIERCE WESTWOOD ACADEMY THE W.E.S.T. PREP MAGNETHigh · 1,956 students
- LINCOLN PARK ACADEMYHigh · 1,667 students
- FOREST GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 855 students
- SAMUEL S. GAINES ACADEMY OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIESElementary · 786 students
- LAWNWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 765 students
Nearby schools
- LINCOLN PARK ACADEMY0.6 mi · 1,667
- CHESTER A. MOORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 470
- CREATIVE ARTS ACADEMY OF ST. LUCIE1.5 mi · 515
- PERFORMANCE BASED PREPARATORY ACADEMY1.9 mi · 87
- DAN MCCARTY MIDDLE SCHOOL2.3 mi · 657
- FORT PIERCE WESTWOOD ACADEMY THE W.E.S.T. PREP MAGNET2.4 mi · 1,956
Frequently asked questions
About FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 439 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 17.6:1 students per teacher at FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 3% White, 21% Hispanic, 72% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of ST. LUCIE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.