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%.

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