FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an intimate elementary campus in FORT PIERCE, Florida, run under ST. LUCIE. The school enrolls 439 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 27% leaner than the state mean of about 604.

ST. LUCIE runs 53 schools in total, collectively educating 49,308 students. FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that Black students make up the majority at 72%. The remainder reads as 21% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 69% of students at FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, St. Lucie County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 46.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 49.4%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (St. Lucie County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $71,457 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across St. Lucie County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,809 students), FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

LINCOLN PARK ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.5%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 24%: 576 students in 2018 compared to 439 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 16% to 3%. Class-load math has widened: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

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