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What's the one class at ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
722
Elementary
DISTRICT 911 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. LUCIE·NCES 120177001926
ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2020 S 13TH ST, FORT PIERCE, FL 34950 · (772) 468-5213 · St. Lucie County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL722 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.4:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
556 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 50%
Community
3
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. 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
34.2%
FL avg 56.7% . +4.9pp since 2023
Math
53.6%
FL avg 58.9% . +8.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
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
43.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
722
-1 (0%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 17.2:1
% White
7%
was 8%
% Hispanic
32%
was 24%
% Black
56%
was 63%
% Asian
0%
was 0%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a reasonably sized elementary campus in FORT PIERCE, Florida, one of the schools within ST. LUCIE. The school educates 722 students in grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 53 schools in ST. LUCIE (49,308 students total), ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that Black students make up the majority at 56%; the rest reads as 32% Hispanic, 7% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 77% of students at ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above St. Lucie County's rate of about 57%.
After controlling for student poverty, ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.6%; this one delivers 43.0%.
Around the school, community-level numbers for St. Lucie County indicate median household income runs about $71,457, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across St. Lucie County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,809 students), ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
DALE CASSENS EDUCATION COMPLEX is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 54.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has held roughly steady, going from 723 students in 2018 to 722 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 24% to 32%.
Inside the community feed, the feed for ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL typically covers enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
- DALE CASSENS EDUCATION COMPLEX0.2 mi · 218
- DAN MCCARTY MIDDLE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 657
- LAWNWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 765
- CREATIVE ARTS ACADEMY OF ST. LUCIE1.2 mi · 515
- FAIRLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 653
- PERFORMANCE BASED PREPARATORY ACADEMY1.6 mi · 87
Frequently asked questions
About ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 722 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 17.6:1 (41 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 7% White, 32% Hispanic, 56% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of ST. LUCIE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.