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Enrollment
1,206
Elementary
DISTRICT 911 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. LUCIE·NCES 120177002481
NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL
250 NW FLORESTA DR, PORT ST LUCIE, FL 34983 · (772) 340-4700 · St. Lucie County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,206 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 35% of Florida public elementary schools
- CTest 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
15.1:1
80 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.4:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
865 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 20 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 84 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 7% |
| Grade 2 | 89 | 7% |
| Grade 3 | 109 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 103 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 106 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 181 | 15% |
| Grade 7 | 205 | 17% |
| Grade 8 | 229 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (84) is 63% smaller than its 8th grade class (229).
Student demographics
71%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
50.1%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.7pp since 2023
Math
52.3%
FL avg 58.9% . +5.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.1% | 52.3% |
| 2023-24 | 44.4% | 46.7% |
% 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
46.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.2%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL
NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL's state test result (46.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL this school | 1,206 | 71.7% | 46.8% |
| WALTER CALDWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AUBURNDALE | 887 | 72.7% | 50.6% |
| BAYSHORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PORT ST LUCIE | 879 | 67.7% | 54.3% |
| OAK HAMMOCK K-8 SCHOOL PORT ST LUCIE | 1,727 | 66.4% | 45.4% |
| LAKE ALFRED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKE ALFRED | 1,059 | 65.0% | 48.0% |
| LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AUBURNDALE | 915 | 72.5% | 36.0% |
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 NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In St. Lucie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.8% | #1,491 of 2,136 | #27 of 31 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.3% | #1,451 of 2,149 ▲ 102 | #25 of 31 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.1% | #1,297 of 2,149 ▲ 126 | #19 of 31 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,206 | #83 of 2,267 | #9 of 31 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #722 of 2,077 | #2 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.8% | #152 of 2,108 | #4 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.7% | #391 of 2,188 | #4 of 31 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.4% | #458 of 621 | #18 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
1,206
+128 (+12%) vs 2020
-42% since 1990-91, when it was 2,067
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 14.0:1
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 | 1,206 | 80 | 15.1:1 | 72% (865) |
| 2023-24 | 1,265 | 73 | 17.3:1 | 70% (891) |
| 2022-23 | 1,223 | 79.1 | 15.5:1 | 76% (931) |
| 2020-21 | 1,078 | 77 | 14.0:1 | 77% (834) |
| 2017-18 | 1,155 | 83 | 13.9:1 | 69% (795) |
| 2015-16 | 1,163 | 87 | 13.4:1 | 79% (921) |
| 2010-11 | 1,282 | 111 | 11.6:1 | 70% (894) |
| 2000-01 | 951 | 56 | 17.0:1 | 62% (588) |
| 1990-91 | 2,067 | 111 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL.
About NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL
In PORT ST LUCIE, Florida, NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL is a high-enrollment elementary school. The school serves 1,206 students in pre-K through 8 in 2024-25. For comparison, elementary schools in Florida average about 604 students.
ST. LUCIE (53 schools, 49,308 students) runs NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL.
NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL has no majority group; Hispanic students are the largest, at 34%. Other students are 34% Black, 22% White, and 7% multiracial. By comparison, St. Lucie County residents are about 22% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 71% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school has about 15.1 students per teacher and 80 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 2.4 below the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 72%. The gap from the 57% average for public schools in St. Lucie County is 15 points.
allk12 grades NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL a C+. The grade compares the school only with Florida public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 45.2% at NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 46.8%.
Among St. Lucie County residents, the median household income is $71,457, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL is one of 57 public schools in the county.
The next-closest public school is RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL OF ST. LUCIE, about 1.5 miles away. NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL's average proficiency of 46.8% compares with 53.7% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Locale: City: Mid-size. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment is up 12% from 2020-21, when NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL had 1,078 students, to 2024-25, when it had 1,206. Its ratio of students to teachers was 14.0:1 in 2020-21, and 15.1:1 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 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
- RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL OF ST. LUCIE1.5 mi · 1,413
- WEST GATE K-8 SCHOOL1.7 mi · 1,639
- ACCELERATION ACADEMY1.9 mi · 418
- PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 553
- SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY2.2 mi · 527
- SAVANNA RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 512
Frequently asked questions
About NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOLHow large is NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL?
NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,206 students in grades PK-08.
Is NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL is approximately 15.1:1 (80 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL?
Student demographics at NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL are roughly 22% White, 34% Hispanic, 34% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL in?
NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL is part of ST. LUCIE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.