Chester A. Moore K-8 Academy of Success, Fort Pierce

The Fort Pierce K-8 Academy of Success on North 29th Street was graded C for 2025-26 by the Florida Department of Education, on 46 percent of total possible points.

In the Department of Education spreadsheet headed 2025-26 School Grades as of September 1, 2026, the school appears as CHESTER A. MOORE K8 ACADEMY OF SUCCESS, school 0111 in district 56, ST. LUCIE, with C in the Grade 2026 cell (FLDOE school grades spreadsheet). Its row records 411 Total Points Earned over 9 Total Components and 96 in the Percent Tested column, and the Grade 2025 and Grade 2024 cells also read C.

Because the School Type cell reads 04, which the legend lists as Combination, the Fort Pierce school is measured on the high and combination scale, where the spreadsheet note assigns a C to 45% to 59% of points, a B to 60% to 64% and an A to 65% of points or greater (FLDOE scale note).

In the descriptive cells, Chester A. Moore K-8 is not a charter, is flagged as a Title I school and shows 100 as its percent of economically disadvantaged students (FLDOE school grades spreadsheet). Links to the school's testing results and its improvement plan sit on the district profile (district profile for Chester A. Moore K-8).

English Language Arts Learning Gains of the Lowest 25% read 59 and Social Studies Achievement read 56 in the Fort Pierce school's row, while Mathematics Learning Gains of the Lowest 25% read 31.

The table below follows the Fort Pierce school's row column by column, using the spreadsheet's own headings (FLDOE school grades spreadsheet). The Middle School Acceleration cell is empty in the Chester A. Moore K-8 row, and the graduation and college and career columns are empty as well.

The spreadsheet shows C for the Fort Pierce school in 2025, 2024, the 2023 baseline and 2022, with D, F and B entries scattered through older columns.

These cells are copied from the Chester A. Moore K-8 row without change (FLDOE school grades spreadsheet). There is no 2020 column, the Grade 2021 cell is empty, and 2023 and 2015 are labeled Informational Baseline Grade. The B entries sit in the Grade 2009 and Grade 2008 columns, and the oldest column, Grade 1999, reads D.

Columns left out of the table read as follows in the Chester A. Moore K-8 row: C for Grade 2012, Grade 2011 and Grade 2010, C for Grade 2007 and Grade 2006, D for Grade 2005, C for Grade 2004 and Grade 2003, C for Grade 2001 and D for Grade 2000 (FLDOE spreadsheet row 0111).

The campus is at 827 North 29th Street, Fort Pierce, FL 34947, and a Census Bureau geocoder lookup returns Fort Pierce city as the incorporated place.

St. Lucie Public Schools lists phone (772) 468-5315, fax (772) 468-5896, a bell schedule from 8:45 a.m. until 3:15 p.m., grades K-8, Green as the zone, Board District 5 and a listed capacity of 805 for the Fort Pierce school (school profile). The profile gives the Explorers as mascot and teal and yellow as colors, and it links a Safe Routes to School PDF.

The geocoder matched the address as 827 N 29TH ST, FORT PIERCE, FL, 34947 and placed it in Fort Pierce city, GEOID 1224300, within St. Lucie County (Census Bureau geocoder output). The school website prints the same street address, 827 N 29th St., with the phone number (772) 468-5315 at the top of its homepage (Chester A. Moore K-8 website).

District offices for Chester A. Moore K-8 families sit on Brandywine Lane in Port St. Lucie, number 9461, reachable at (772) 429-3600, according to the footer of the school profile (district profile).

The Fort Pierce school's website asks every family to file a new meal application each year and points parents to Skyward Family Access for records and report cards.

Its homepage says all students, regardless of last year's status, need to complete a new meal application, and it links the district's online form (school homepage). The Fort Pierce school also says it encourages families to use the SLPS Family Access Portal for reviewing records, assessment results and report cards.

The same page lists 2026 SAC Meeting Dates, an assessment calendar, a uniform page, dress code, school supply lists, sight words and PBIS among its resources for Chester A. Moore K-8 families.

The yearly form matters beyond lunch: the district Child Nutrition Services page says parents and guardians must complete the school meal application annually and that it also brings funding for school programs, discounted internet services to schools and equipment grants (Child Nutrition Services page). For students at Chester A. Moore K-8 and other district schools, that page lists breakfast for PreK-12 at $0.00, a full paid lunch at $2.50 for PreK-5 and $2.75 for grades 6-12, and a reduced paid lunch at $.40, with questions taken at (772) 429-6229.

The same Child Nutrition Services page says students who qualify can receive free or reduced school meals and waivers for SAT/ACT, and it offers an online payment system for à la carte items, and it links a K-8 à la carte price list used for the Fort Pierce Academy of Success and other K-8 campuses.

Enrollment runs through the district's regional zone system, and the Student Assignment Office at (772) 429-3930 handles applications for the Fort Pierce school.

The district school directory lists Chester A. Moore K-8 Academy of Success among its K-8 schools and describes an open-enrollment system in which parents select from schools close to where they live (district school directory). The directory adds that a student stays at that school up to its top grade unless a parent opts for another one.

The Student Assignment page says the Green Zone, the zone on the school's profile, is north of Midway Road, that zones give preference to families with siblings at the school or living within two miles of it, with Fort Pierce and Port St. Lucie neighborhoods in every zone (Student Assignment page). Assignment happens in two steps, first an online regional zone application and then registration at the school the district assigns.

First time applicants to the Academy of Success upload the child's birth certificate (the original), the Social Security card if there is one, custody papers where needed, the previous school, any IEP and proof of address, and the page says kindergarten entry requires a fifth birthday on or before September 1 (required documents).

Bus routes are set by the district Transportation department, though the Academy of Success website asks parents to drive, walk or bike students when they safely can.

The Fort Pierce school's Bus Information note encourages parents to drive students to school if they can, or to have students walk or ride their bikes if they have a safe route, and it links a page to register or find a bus route (Bus Information note).

The Transportation department runs its north complex from 601 S. 29th St., Fort Pierce, FL 34947, phone (772) 204-RIDE (7433), and states that each bus has two-way radios, cameras on board and satellite tracking (St. Lucie Public Schools Transportation). Entering the code 77914 in the Here Comes the Bus app lets Fort Pierce parents follow a bus, and the department also lists a Pay Rider Plan and a Non-Transportation Zone Map.

Last verified: October 22, 2026; rechecked for this guide were the Chester A. Moore K-8 row in the FLDOE 2025-26 spreadsheet, the school's district profile and its own homepage, the directory of district schools, the Student Assignment and Transportation pages, and the Census geocoder result for 827 North 29th Street, plus the district meal price list.