Creative Arts Academy of St. Lucie (CAST), Fort Pierce

CAST, the arts magnet K-8 on Delaware Avenue in Fort Pierce, earned an A for 2025-26 with 67 percent of total possible points, after a B in 2025.

The state table dated September 1, 2026 names the school CREATIVE ARTS ACADEMY OF ST. LUCIE, number 0051 in district 56, ST. LUCIE, and prints A in Grade 2026 and B in Grade 2025 (FLDOE 2025-26 grades table). The CAST row adds 673 Total Points Earned, 10 Total Components and 99 Percent Tested.

With 04 in the School Type cell, CAST counts as a combination school in the table's legend, and the note's combination scale runs from an A at 65% or more of points through a B (60% to 64%), a C (45% to 59%) and a D (35% to 44%) down to an F at 34% or less (grading scale note).

The CAST row also marks the school as a Title I school that is not a charter, and it records 94.8 as the percent of economically disadvantaged students (FLDOE 2025-26 grades table). From the CAST district profile, families reach the school's improvement plan and its testing results (CAST district profile).

Social Studies Achievement read 82 and Middle School Acceleration read 79 in the CAST row, and Science Achievement read 57.

Each cell below is taken from the Creative Arts Academy row in the Fort Pierce school's state record and labeled with the table's own column heading (FLDOE 2025-26 grades table). The CAST row is empty under Graduation Rate and College and Career Acceleration.

Before the 2026 A, the CAST row shows B for 2025, 2024 and the 2023 baseline, then C in each filled column from 2022 back through the 2015 baseline.

The table repeats the CAST history cells as the state prints them (FLDOE 2025-26 grades table). There is no 2020 column, and CAST has nothing entered for 2021; older columns include A in the Grade 2008, 2006, 2004 and 2003 cells and D in Grade 2013.

Cells not shown in the table read C for Grade 2012, 2011 and 2010, B for Grade 2009, 2007 and 2005, and B for Grade 2002 and 2001 in the Creative Arts Academy row (FLDOE row 0051).

CAST is at 1100 Delaware Avenue, Fort Pierce, FL 34950, and the Census Bureau geocoder puts that address inside the city of Fort Pierce.

The St. Lucie Public Schools profile lists 1100 Delaware Ave., phone (772) 467-4278, fax (772) 467-4277, a day from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Board District 5, the Green zone, grades K-8 and a capacity figure of 886 (district profile). The Creative Arts Academy profile names the Performers as mascot with light blue, orange and yellow as colors, and its after school care entry is YMCA of the Treasure Coast.

The CAST website header gives Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 3:30 PM with the same phone number (CAST website). The two district-hosted pages print different times, and the Fort Pierce school's own number is the place to confirm the bell schedule.

The geocoder's match, 1100 DELAWARE AVE, FORT PIERCE, FL, 34950, sits within Fort Pierce city, place GEOID 1224300, St. Lucie County (Census Bureau geocoder match). District offices for CAST families are at 9461 Brandywine Lane, Port St. Lucie, (772) 429-3600, according to the profile.

The district directory describes CAST as a countywide K-8 arts magnet that weaves traditional academics with a curriculum featuring music, art, dance and drama.

In the Magnet Schools section of the St. Lucie Public Schools directory, the Creative Arts Academy entry says the interdisciplinary approach lets students create, recreate and make their own observations, and marks the school County-wide (district school directory). The CAST profile lists the zone as Green, so the directory and profile describe the Fort Pierce magnet's reach differently. Alongside CAST, that Magnet Schools section names Lincoln Park Academy, Fort Pierce Westwood Academy, Fairlawn Elementary, F. K. Sweet Elementary and the Gaines STEM academy.

The CAST homepage says the K-8 magnet features a Black Box Theater, new arts classrooms, upgraded facilities and earlier school hours to better accommodate extracurricular or community based activities, and that the Cambridge Primary program is part of its academics (CAST homepage). Its Fine Arts menu lists Fine Arts Auditions, Elementary Drama, Musical Theatre, Elementary Music, Band, Dance, Visual Arts and Graphic Design.

Student performances at the Fort Pierce school are ticketed through a Box Office link on the CAST site, and the homepage says copyright limits mean not every performance can be posted online, so families are encouraged to attend in person; past shows are on the school's YouTube channel.

The CAST about page says its interdisciplinary curriculum lets students learn by doing, with reading across the curriculum maintained daily, and that the school follows the Kids at Hope philosophy that all children are capable of success (CAST about page). The profile spells out the school expectations behind the CAST name: Come prepared to learn, Always be respectful, Stay safe and Take responsibility, under a Positive Behavior Intervention Support program.

Day to day, the CAST site organizes its Academics menu by grade, with pages for Kindergarten through Fifth Grade and a Middle School page, plus Library: Media Services (CAST academics menu). Its Resources menu for Fort Pierce families links a dress code, supply list, code of conduct, student handbook, Skyward Family Access, Parental Rights Information, the 25-26 CAST Collection Plan and PM Testing Letters.

The homepage describes the CAST School Advisory Council as a team representing parents, teachers, students, administrators, support staff, business and industry people and other community members, meeting monthly to review the School Improvement Plan. A Parent Teacher Organization raises money for classroom materials and libraries at the Delaware Avenue school, and volunteers correct papers, chaperone field trips or tutor students after applying through the site.

Requests for a CAST seat go to the district's Student Assignment Office, phone (772) 429-3930, which handles magnet applications for the Fort Pierce school.

According to the directory, CAST applications can be picked up only from the Student Assignment Office, a family may apply as soon as the child has a social security number, and placement follows the application date (magnet rules in the directory). The Student Assignment page separately lists a Lottery Magnet track, an online first step and registration at the school after assignment, so the two pages describe the CAST route in different terms (Student Assignment page).

For CAST and every other Fort Pierce school, the Student Assignment page lists required documents, including an original birth certificate and proof of address, and says kindergarten children must turn 5 on or before September 1 (Student Assignment requirements).

Transportation for magnet students in Fort Pierce often runs through Community Bus Stops, central pickup points the district says are used primarily for magnet schools and attractor programs; parents bring students to the stop when necessary and stops are not moved on individual request (Transportation department). Bus questions go to (772) 204-RIDE (7433).

Last verified: October 22, 2026, with row 0051 of the FLDOE 2025-26 grades table, the CAST profile, homepage and about page, the district directory, the Student Assignment and Transportation pages and a Census geocoder query for 1100 Delaware Avenue all reloaded for the Creative Arts Academy.