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If you could change one rule at ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, what would it be?
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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
C
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Scored higher than 28% of Florida public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
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
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 | 56 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 107 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 104 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 109 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 135 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 94 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 117 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (107) is 9% smaller than its 5th grade class (117).
Student demographics
57%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
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.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.2% | 53.6% |
| 2023-24 | 29.3% | 44.7% |
% 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
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 →
Schools most like ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (43.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 722 | 77.0% | 43.0% |
| HOPE-CENTENNIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEST PALM BEACH | 802 | 75.7% | 35.0% |
| ROLLING GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BOYNTON BEACH | 673 | 77.9% | 30.8% |
| TEMPLE TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEMPLE TERRACE | 639 | 73.4% | 31.1% |
| GROVE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEST PALM BEACH | 656 | 74.8% | 41.0% |
| PINELOCH ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 726 | 73.1% | 42.9% |
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 ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In St. Lucie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #1,684 of 2,136 | #30 of 31 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.6% | #1,386 of 2,149 ▲ 247 | #23 of 31 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.2% | #1,969 of 2,149 ▲ 49 | #31 of 31 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 722 | #649 of 2,267 | #18 of 31 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.6:1 | #1,592 of 2,077 | #15 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.3% | #1,024 of 2,108 | #29 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.0% | #229 of 2,188 | #1 of 31 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.1% | #1,374 of 1,374 | #6 of 6 |
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
722
+15 (+2%) vs 2020
-10% since 1990-91, when it was 798
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 17.2:1
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 | 722 | 41.1 | 17.6:1 | 77% (556) |
| 2023-24 | 662 | 44 | 15.1:1 | 85% (564) |
| 2022-23 | 729 | 45 | 16.2:1 | 90% (658) |
| 2020-21 | 707 | 41 | 17.2:1 | 88% (622) |
| 2017-18 | 723 | 42 | 17.2:1 | 90% (648) |
| 2015-16 | 769 | 45 | 17.1:1 | 87% (667) |
| 2010-11 | 634 | 49 | 12.9:1 | 88% (558) |
| 2000-01 | 688 | 40 | 17.2:1 | 80% (551) |
| 1990-91 | 798 | 45 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public mid-sized elementary school in FORT PIERCE, Florida. The school serves pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 722 students.
ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the 53 schools that make up ST. LUCIE (49,308 students in total).
More than half of the students at ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are Black (56%). Other reported shares: 32% Hispanic, 7% White, and 4% multiracial. That compares with about 22% Black among all St. Lucie County residents. The diversity index for ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 57%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are about 17.6 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, which has 41.1. That is in line with the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 77%. The 57% average for public schools in St. Lucie County is 20 points lower.
Among Florida public elementary schools, ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 28%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 43.0%, compared with a predicted 42.6%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Florida schools on BeatsExpectations.
In St. Lucie County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $71,457, about 27% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. There are 57 public schools in the county, enrolling about 50,809, ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 0.2 miles from DALE CASSENS EDUCATION COMPLEX, its nearest public school. ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's average proficiency of 43.0% compares with 54.8% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 722, close to the 707 recorded in 2020-21.
ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a community page on allk12 for topics such as special education services, counseling, and support programs. You can also rate the school on this page.
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.