NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL

NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL is one of the sizable primary schools in PORT ST LUCIE, Florida, run under ST. LUCIE, with 1,206 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 100% larger than typical.

ST. LUCIE comprises 53 schools with combined enrollment of 49,308 students; NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL records that 34% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 34% Black, 22% White, 7% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. 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, NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.2%, the actual is 46.8%, a residual of +1.6 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for St. Lucie County put median household income runs about $71,457, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across St. Lucie County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,809 students), NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL OF ST. LUCIE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 53.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 4%: 1,155 students in 2018 compared to 1,206 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 35% to 22% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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