PORT SALERNO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PORT SALERNO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school of average-sized scale in STUART, Florida, part of MARTIN, teacheing 730 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so PORT SALERNO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 21% above that benchmark.

Within MARTIN, which oversees 32 schools and 18,316 students, PORT SALERNO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, PORT SALERNO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 10% White, 4% Black. By comparison, Martin County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, PORT SALERNO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 61% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Martin County's rate of about 43%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PORT SALERNO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 42.8%, a residual of -7.7 points.

In the area at large, Martin County reports that median household income runs about $82,943, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Martin County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,316 students), PORT SALERNO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PREKINDERGARTEN PROGRAMS, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PORT SALERNO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 62.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 9%: 802 students in 2018 compared to 730 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 72% to 84% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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