Fort Pierce Public Schools Guide

The St. Lucie Public Schools campuses in the table below have addresses the Census Bureau geocoder places inside the City of Fort Pierce, from Lincoln Park Academy on Avenue I to Fort Pierce Central High on South 25th Street.

The district school directory lists schools by level, and each school profile gives the street address, grade span, zone and capacity (district school directory). Each address in the table below was matched with the Census Bureau geocoder, which returned Fort Pierce city as the incorporated place for each one (Lincoln Park Academy, Fort Pierce Central High, Dan McCarty Middle, Forest Grove Middle, Samuel S. Gaines Academy of Emerging Technologies, Creative Arts Academy of St. Lucie, Chester A. Moore K-8 Academy of Success, Fairlawn Elementary, Lawnwood Elementary, St. Lucie Elementary).

Addresses, grade spans, capacities and zones in the Fort Pierce table come from the district profile for each school: Lincoln Park Academy, Fort Pierce Central High, Dan McCarty Middle, Forest Grove Middle, Samuel S. Gaines Academy of Emerging Technologies, Creative Arts Academy of St. Lucie, Chester A. Moore K-8 Academy of Success, Fairlawn Elementary, Lawnwood Elementary, St. Lucie Elementary. Lincoln Park Academy's profile lists grades 6-12 and a Countywide zone, and Fort Pierce Central High's profile lists a capacity of 2453.

The 2025-26 Florida school grades file gives each Fort Pierce campus a letter, from an A at Lincoln Park Academy and Fairlawn Elementary to a C at Fort Pierce Central High, and the table below copies each value from that file.

The Florida Department of Education file titled "2025-26 School Grades as of September 1, 2026" lists every St. Lucie school under district 56 with a Grade 2026 column, a Grade 2025 column and the percent of total possible points behind each grade (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades file). In the Fort Pierce rows, the A grades went to Lincoln Park Academy, Forest Grove Middle, Samuel S. Gaines Academy of Emerging Technologies, Creative Arts Academy of St. Lucie and Fairlawn Elementary, and the C grades to Fort Pierce Central High and Chester A. Moore K-8 Academy of Success.

The state file uses different scales by school type: for elementary schools an A starts at 62% of points, for middle schools at 64% and for high and combination schools at 65%, with C bands of 41% to 53%, 44% to 56% and 45% to 59% respectively (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades file). In the file, Forest Grove Middle, Creative Arts Academy of St. Lucie and St. Lucie Elementary show a higher Grade 2026 than Grade 2025, and Fort Pierce Central High shows a Grade 2025 of B and a Grade 2026 of C.

The Fort Pierce Westwood Academy guide covers the WEST Prep Magnet high school row by row, including each component of its grade.

The district's magnet list names Creative Arts Academy, Fairlawn, Westwood, Sweet Elementary, Lincoln Park Academy and Gaines, and magnet applications are taken only at the district Student Assignment Office, with students assigned by the date of application.

The district school directory describes Creative Arts Academy of St. Lucie (K-8) as an arts magnet with Music, Art, Dance and Drama; Fairlawn Elementary (K-5) and F. K. Sweet Elementary (K-5) as traditional academic, multicultural magnets; Lincoln Park Academy (6-12) as a high achieving public academic school that attracts students to Ft. Pierce from all over St. Lucie County; and Samuel S. Gaines Academy of Emerging Technologies (K-8) as a STEM K-8 magnet with virtual and augmented reality, gaming and computer coding (district school directory). The same list names Fort Pierce Westwood Academy: The WEST Prep Magnet (9-12), which the directory calls the only STEAM magnet high school on the Treasure Coast.

Fairlawn Elementary's own profile calls it St. Lucie County's first academic magnet elementary school (Fairlawn Elementary profile). The directory marks Creative Arts Academy, Westwood, Lincoln Park Academy and Gaines as County-wide, Fairlawn as Blue Zone and Green Zone, and F. K. Sweet as Red Zone and Green Zone (district school directory).

On applying, the Fort Pierce magnet rules are set by the district: parents may apply any time after their child receives a social security number, applications are only available at the Student Assignment Office, and students are assigned according to the date of application (district school directory). The Student Assignment line is (772) 429-3930, and the department says it can help families in French, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Italian, Portuguese and English (district Student Assignment page).

Westwood Academy, Sweet Elementary on Avenue Q and White City Elementary have Fort Pierce mailing addresses but sit outside the incorporated City of Fort Pierce according to the Census geocoder.

The geocoder returns no incorporated place for Fort Pierce Westwood Academy at 1801 Panther Lane, only St. Lucie County (geocoder result for 1801 Panther Lane), so the school sits in unincorporated county land near Fort Pierce; its own guide covers the details. For Frances K. Sweet Elementary at 1400 Avenue Q, the geocoder returns the Fort Pierce North CDP rather than the city (geocoder result for 1400 Avenue Q), and the district profile lists the school as K-5 with a capacity of 777 (Frances K. Sweet profile). White City Elementary at 905 West 2nd Street matches to the White City CDP (geocoder result for 905 West 2nd Street), and its profile lists grades K-5 and a capacity of 637 (White City Elementary profile).

The schools near Fort Pierce appear in the same state grades file: Frances K. Sweet Elementary shows a Grade 2026 of B after a C, White City Elementary a B after a B, and Fort Pierce Westwood Academy a C after a B (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades file). The St. Lucie County schools guide covers district-wide enrollment, buses and the school board.

St. Lucie Public Schools uses regional school zones rather than neighborhood schools, split at Midway Road and Florida's Turnpike, with the Green Zone defined as the area north of Midway Road.

The Student Assignment page says elementary and middle schools are divided into three zones with Midway Road and Florida's Turnpike as the dividing lines, each including portions of Fort Pierce and Port St. Lucie (district Student Assignment page). The Green Zone is north of Midway Road, the Blue Zone is south of Midway Road and east of the Turnpike, and the Red Zone is south of Midway Road and west of the Turnpike. The process gives preference to families who have siblings at a school or live within two miles of it.

For high school, Fort Pierce students are assigned to their residential zone school based on zip code, and currently enrolled students do not reapply for their zone school (district Student Assignment page). The district directory adds that a student remains at the chosen school through its highest grade unless the parent voluntarily picks another (district school directory). The Student Assignment page posts the enrollment windows.

Indian River State College lists its Massey Campus at 3209 Virginia Ave, Fort Pierce, as the college's primary campus, an address the Census geocoder places inside the City of Fort Pierce (IRSC campuses page, geocoder result for 3209 Virginia Ave).

For a single school, the Fort Pierce Westwood Academy guide has the grade components, magnet programs and application route for the WEST Prep Magnet. For district-wide rules, the St. Lucie County schools guide covers how the school district enrolls students, runs buses and schedules board meetings. Families comparing campuses inside Fort Pierce can use the two tables above, which pair each address with its zone, capacity and state grade, and then check each school's own profile before applying (district school directory).

Last verified: October 22, 2026, after the district directory, the district profile of each Fort Pierce area school named here, the matching Census geocoder lookups, the Student Assignment page and the FLDOE 2025-26 grades workbook were each read again for this schools hub.