WEATHERBEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 800 E WEATHERBEE RD, in FORT PIERCE, Florida, WEATHERBEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a reasonably sized K-5 school that enrolls 726 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under ST. LUCIE. Enrollment runs roughly 20% above the state mean of about 604.

WEATHERBEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 53 schools operated by ST. LUCIE, a district that teaches 49,308 students overall.

In terms of who attends, WEATHERBEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 33% Black, 14% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, St. Lucie County as a whole is about 22% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 63% of students at WEATHERBEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WEATHERBEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.7%, the actual is 36.6%, a residual of -13.1 points.

Across the wider county, St. Lucie County reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,457 per year, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WEATHERBEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 57 public schools in St. Lucie County (combined enrollment of about 50,809 students).

WHITE CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WEATHERBEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, WEATHERBEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.6%.

WEATHERBEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 4%: 697 students in 2018 compared to 726 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 19% to 14%. Class-load math has widened: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 in 2025.

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