Dan McCarty Middle School, Fort Pierce

Dan McCarty Middle School in Fort Pierce earned a B for 2025-26 on 59 percent of total possible points, the same letter it received in 2025.

The state lists DAN MCCARTY MIDDLE SCHOOL as school 0072 in district 56, ST. LUCIE, in a workbook titled 2025-26 School Grades as of September 1, 2026 (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades workbook). Across that Fort Pierce row, the 2026 and 2025 cells both hold B and the 2024 cell holds C. The campus earned 527 points over 9 graded components, and 97 percent of its students were tested.

A School Type code of 02 marks the Fort Pierce campus as a middle school under the workbook legend. Middle schools are judged on their own scale in the file note: B covers 57% to 63% of points and A starts at 64%, with C at 44% to 56%, D at 34% to 43% and F at 33% or less (grading scale note in the FLDOE file).

For this Fort Pierce school the workbook marks Charter School NO, Title I YES and Alternative/ESE Center School N, and it enters 100 as the percent of economically disadvantaged students (FLDOE row for school 0072). The district profile page links a School Grade and Testing Results report and a School Improvement Plan for the campus (Dan McCarty Middle district profile).

The nine scored cells in the Fort Pierce school's row run from 43 in science to 72 for middle school acceleration.

Each value below is copied from the cells for school 0072; the left column shortens the state's long column names (FLDOE school grades workbook). In the Fort Pierce row, the third grade reading cell, the graduation rate cell and the college and career cell are all empty.

In the Fort Pierce row, math gains for the lowest quartile read 65 while math achievement reads 50, and the reading achievement cell also reads 50 (school 0072 component cells). The workbook gives no breakdown below these cells, so the School Grade and Testing Results link on the district profile is the place to look for subject detail (district profile academics links).

The Fort Pierce school's record moves from F in 2013 and 2014 to D in 2022, C in 2024 and B in both 2025 and 2026.

Every letter below is reproduced as printed for school 0072 (FLDOE school grades workbook, row 0072). The file skips 2020 entirely, leaves the 2021 cell empty for this Fort Pierce campus, and labels the 2023 and 2015 letters as informational baselines.

Years left out of the table read C for 2010, 2009 and 2008, D for 2007, B for 2005, C for 2004, B for 2002, and C for 2001 and 2000 in the same Fort Pierce row (remaining year cells for school 0072).

Dan McCarty Middle sits at 1201 Mississippi Ave., Fort Pierce, FL 34950, and the Census Bureau geocoder places that address inside the city of Fort Pierce.

Calls to the Fort Pierce campus go to (772) 468-5700, and faxes to (772) 468-5737, according to the district profile, which also lists grades 6-8, the Green zone, Board District 5 and a capacity of 1260 (St. Lucie Public Schools profile for Dan McCarty). The eagle is the mascot, green and white are the colors, and the profile links a Safe Routes to School PDF and a map for directions to the Fort Pierce site.

A Census geocoder query returned the match 1201 MISSISSIPPI AVE, FORT PIERCE, FL, 34950, with Fort Pierce city (GEOID 1224300) as the incorporated place and St. Lucie County (GEOID 12111) as the county (Census Bureau geocoder result).

The district that runs the Fort Pierce school, St. Lucie Public Schools, keeps its central office at 9461 Brandywine Lane, Port St. Lucie, FL 34986-2209, phone (772) 429-3600, as the profile footer shows (district profile footer).

Two official pages disagree on the end of the Fort Pierce school day: the district profile says 3:50 p.m., and the school website says 4:00 pm.

On the district profile, the General Information block reads Hours: 9:30 a.m. - 3:50 p.m. for the Fort Pierce middle school (district profile hours). The school website's School Hours box instead gives the office 8:45 am to 4:00 pm, students 9:30 am to 4:00 pm with arrival at 9:00 am, and teachers 8:45 am to 4:15 pm (Dan McCarty Middle website). A parent planning a Fort Pierce pickup can settle the question with the front office at 772-468-5700, the number both pages print.

Links on the Fort Pierce school's website cover a calendar, a dress code, the Student Code of Conduct, an Athletic Forms Packet, the Online Meal Application, Parental Rights Information, Skyward Family and Student Access, and a Register For A Bus page (school website resources).

The Fort Pierce school calls itself a Kids at Hope School and lists a Parent Teacher Organization, a School Advisory Council and a school volunteer program.

Its About Us page states the mission of preparing each child to be a valued member of society by providing the social and academic skills to succeed, and it prints both the Kids at Hope student pledge and the adult pledge used on the Fort Pierce campus (Dan McCarty About Us page). The home page tagline is Soaring to Academic Excellence, over panels titled Curriculum, Academic Programs and Instructors (school website home page).

According to the Fort Pierce home page, the PTO raises money that buys classroom materials, supplements programs and supports classroom libraries, while the SAC meets monthly to review the goals and objectives of the School Improvement Plan (community involvement section). Volunteer tasks named there are correcting papers, chaperoning field trips and tutoring individual students.

Other links on the Fort Pierce site include a Media Center Collection Plan for 25-26, a Dan McCarty CDP for 2025-26, a Destiny library search and Fortify FL (school website resource list).

Seats at the Fort Pierce school come through the district's regional zones, and the Student Assignment Office at (772) 429-3930 handles applications.

The district directory describes an open-enrollment system in which parents select from schools close to where they live, and it places Dan McCarty Middle under Middle Schools beside Forest Grove, Southern Oaks and Southport (district school directory). Student Assignment splits elementary and middle schools into three zones along Midway Road and Florida's Turnpike, each zone covering parts of Fort Pierce and Port St. Lucie, with the Green Zone north of Midway Road; siblings of current students and families within two miles of a school get preference (Student Assignment page).

For a Fort Pierce family the same page lays out a 2 STEP process: an online application for the regional zone, then registration once a seat is assigned. When proofs of address are not in the custodial parent's or guardian's name, a notarized affidavit of residence has to accompany the application (district assignment rules).

The district transportation department lists a North Transportation Complex at 601 S. 29th St., Fort Pierce, Fl. 34947, reachable at (772) 204-RIDE (7433) (SLPS Transportation department). Riders' families can track buses in the Here Comes the Bus app with school code 77914.

For federal Title I purposes, the FLDOE school list counts 728 students ages 5-17 at the Fort Pierce middle school and 649 children from low-income families, or 89.15%, with program type SW (FLDOE Title I school list).

Last verified: October 22, 2026, against fresh reads of school 0072 in the FLDOE grades workbook, the FLDOE Title I list, the Dan McCarty district profile, home and About Us pages, the district directory, Student Assignment and Transportation pages, and a geocoder match for 1201 Mississippi Ave. in Fort Pierce.