Forest Grove Middle School, Fort Pierce

Forest Grove Middle School on South 25th Street in Fort Pierce earned an A for 2025-26, with 64 percent of the points available, up from a B in 2025.

FOREST GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL is school 0371 in district 56, ST. LUCIE, in the state's grades file dated September 1, 2026 (FLDOE school grades file for 2025-26). The Forest Grove row carries A under Grade 2026, B under Grade 2025 and C under Grade 2024, with 572 Total Points Earned across 9 Total Components and 96 under Percent Tested.

The School Type cell reads 02, the legend's code for Middle, so the Fort Pierce school is graded on the middle school scale. The file's note sets that scale at 64% of points or greater for an A, 57% to 63% for a B, 44% to 56% for a C, 34% to 43% for a D and 33% of points or less for an F (middle school scale note).

Forest Grove Middle carries YES in the Title I column and NO for charter status, with 100 entered as its percent of economically disadvantaged students (state grades workbook, row 0371). The district profile links School Grade and Testing Results and a School Improvement Plan for the Fort Pierce campus (Forest Grove Middle district profile).

In the Forest Grove Middle row, Middle School Acceleration read 89 and Social Studies Achievement read 78, while English Language Arts Learning Gains of the Lowest 25% read 54.

The table lists the nine graded cells and the summary cells of the Fort Pierce middle school's row with the state's column labels (FLDOE school grades file for 2025-26). The Forest Grove row has no Grade 3 English Language Arts entry, and its graduation rate and college and career acceleration columns are blank as well.

Before its 2026 A, the Forest Grove Middle row shows B for 2025, C for 2024, the 2023 baseline and 2022, and B for 2019.

These history cells are reproduced from the Forest Grove row as printed (FLDOE school grades file for 2025-26). No 2020 column appears, nothing is entered for Forest Grove in 2021, and the 2023 and 2015 entries are Informational Baseline Grades. Grade 2013 reads D, and the oldest column, Grade 1999, also reads D.

Columns not in the table read B for Grade 2010 and Grade 2009, C for Grade 2007, and C in every column from Grade 2005 back through Grade 2000 in the same Forest Grove Middle row (FLDOE row 0371).

Forest Grove Middle is at 3201 South 25th Street, Fort Pierce, FL 34981, and the Census Bureau geocoder places the address within the city of Fort Pierce.

St. Lucie Public Schools lists phone (772) 468-5885, fax (772) 595-1187, hours of 9:30 a.m. to 3:50 p.m., grades 6-8, the Green zone, Board District 3 and a capacity of 1067 (district school profile). The Forest Grove profile gives the bulldog as mascot and red and black as school colors, and its after school care entry is Boys and Girls Clubs.

A geocoder lookup matched 3201 S 25TH ST, FORT PIERCE, FL, 34981 with Fort Pierce city (GEOID 1224300) as its incorporated place and St. Lucie County as its county (Census Bureau geocoder).

The Forest Grove website lists the same street as 3201 South 25th Street with phone 772-468-5885 and a school email address, Grover@stlucie.k12.fl.us (Forest Grove Middle website). The profile footer gives the district office as 9461 Brandywine Lane in Port St. Lucie, (772) 429-3600.

Forest Grove Middle hosts MOA Prep, a Marine Oceanographic Academy program with its own application, alongside links for an honor society, coding and chorus.

The Forest Grove website's menu has a MOA Prep Marine Oceanographic Academy section with a MOA-PREP Application page and a pamphlet (school website menu). The application page offers a 2026-2027 MOA PREP APPLICATION PACKET and a MOA Prep Pamphlet 2026-2027 as PDF files (MOA-PREP Application page).

Beyond Forest Grove, the district Student Assignment page names Marine Oceanographic Academy (MOA) among the attractor programs that high school students apply for, next to International Baccalaureate (IB) and the AERO aeronautical program (Student Assignment page).

Other academic links on the Forest Grove site include 8th Grade Course Selection Information, Hour of Code for computer science and programming, Khan Academy, the National Junior Honor Society (NJHS), PBiS and a yearbook page (Forest Grove website). The site footer also links Chorus alongside the Marine Oceanographic Academy.

The Forest Grove about page says it is a Kids at Hope school, describes a School Advisory Council that develops and oversees the School Improvement Plan and a Parent Teacher Organization, and asks would-be volunteers to call the school at (772) 468-5885 (Forest Grove about page).

The same about page states the Forest Grove vision as an environment that is safe, secure and contributes to active learning, where every student and staff member are learners and leaders and teachers act as facilitators creating engaging work. It lists volunteer roles such as fundraising, field trip chaperones and help with a Book Fair, and says some volunteer tasks can be done at home preparing materials.

Middle school seats in Fort Pierce are assigned through the district's regional zone system, run by the Student Assignment Office at (772) 429-3930.

The district school directory lists Forest Grove Middle with Dan McCarty, Southern Oaks and Southport under its Middle Schools heading and says parents choose from schools close to where they live under an open-enrollment system (district school directory). The Student Assignment page says Forest Grove's Green Zone lies north of Midway Road and that siblings of current students and families within two miles of a school get preference (zone rules).

For Forest Grove applicants, the same page describes a two step process, an online application and then registration at the assigned school, and it says that when proofs of address are not in the custodial parent's or guardian's name, a notarized affidavit of residence must be submitted with the application. Families living with relatives or friends are told to contact Student Assignment at (772) 429-3930.

Eighth graders at Forest Grove face a different rule for high school: the Student Assignment page says high school placement follows the zip code of the student's home zone, that no application is needed to stay in the zone school, and that applications are meant only for the Fort Pierce Westwood Academy magnet or attractor programs such as IB, AERO and MOA (high school assignment rules). The Forest Grove website pairs that step with its 8th Grade Course Selection Information page.

Bus eligibility and routes for Forest Grove Middle come from the district Transportation department, which runs buses from a North County Compound and a South County Compound; its north complex address is 601 S. 29th St., Fort Pierce, and its phone line is (772) 204-RIDE (7433) (Transportation department). Its menu includes Safe Walking and Biking to School tips, Questions & Answers about Daycare and an Alternate Address Form.

Last verified: October 22, 2026, through new fetches of Forest Grove Middle's row 0371 in the FLDOE grades file, its district profile, website, about and MOA-PREP pages, the district directory, Student Assignment and Transportation pages, and a Census geocoder match for 3201 South 25th Street.