Fort Pierce Central High School, Fort Pierce

The state file gives Fort Pierce Central High School a C for 2025-26, with a B in each of its 2025 and 2024 columns.

School 0161 in the St. Lucie district, listed as FORT PIERCE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, shows 593 total points across 10 components in the spreadsheet titled 2025-26 School Grades as of September 1, 2026 (Florida school grades spreadsheet, 2025-26). Its Percent of Total Possible Points cell reads 59, and its Percent Tested cell reads 96.

For high schools, the spreadsheet's printed scale assigns a C to 45% through 59% of points, a B to 60% through 64% and an A to 65% or more (Florida school grades spreadsheet, 2025-26). Fort Pierce Central's 59 falls within that printed C range.

The Fort Pierce Central row gives C for the 2023 informational baseline, B for 2022, B for 2019 and 2018, C for 2017 and 2016, and B for the 2015 informational baseline (Florida school grades spreadsheet, 2025-26). It leaves the 2021 cell empty, and no 2020 column appears in the file.

The Fort Pierce Central row records YES for Title I, NO for Charter School, school type 03 (High in the file's legend) and 62.5 for Percent of Economically Disadvantaged Students (Florida school grades spreadsheet, 2025-26).

The Fort Pierce Central row reads 97 for Graduation Rate 2024-25, 85 for College and Career Acceleration 2024-25, 57 for English Language Arts Achievement and 32 for Mathematics Achievement.

Each value in this table comes straight from the Fort Pierce Central row of the state spreadsheet, under the spreadsheet's own column names (Florida school grades spreadsheet, 2025-26).

In the spreadsheet header, only the graduation rate and college and career acceleration columns name a 2024-25 school year (Florida school grades spreadsheet, 2025-26). Under Academics, the Fort Pierce Central district profile links School Grade and Testing Results and the School Improvement Plan for subject detail (Fort Pierce Central district profile).

Yes, the Census Bureau address lookup places the 4101 South 25th Street campus inside the City of Fort Pierce.

The lookup matched 4101 S 25TH ST, FORT PIERCE, FL, 34981 and returned Fort Pierce city, GEOID 1224300, from its incorporated places layer (Census Bureau address lookup). The district profile lists the same 4101 S. 25th St address with phone (772) 468-5888 and fax (772) 468-5761 (Fort Pierce Central district profile), and the school's About Us page spells it 4101 South 25th Street (Fort Pierce Central About Us page).

The NCES locator lists fort pierce central high school at 4101 S 25TH ST, FORT PIERCE, FL 34981 (NCES locator, Fort Pierce results).

The district profile places Fort Pierce Central in the Green zone and in school Board District 3 (Fort Pierce Central district profile). Under Student Assignment rules, a high school student's residential zone school follows from the family's ZIP code, and students already enrolled there submit no application for it (district Student Assignment page).

The district profile lists Fort Pierce Central in the Green zone, while Student Assignment ties high school placement to ZIP code and draws its three color zones for elementary and middle schools.

For those elementary and middle school zones, Student Assignment draws the Green Zone line at Midway Road, with the Blue and Red zones to the south (district Student Assignment page). Per the same page, every one of the three zones takes in parts of both Fort Pierce and Port St. Lucie, a point families comparing addresses in the two cities can check against the district's interactive zone map (district Student Assignment page).

A high school application is needed, per Student Assignment, only for the Fort Pierce Westwood Academy magnet or for an attractor program, with International Baccalaureate, an aeronautical program labeled AERO and the Marine Oceanographic Academy given as examples (district Student Assignment page). New families upload documents with the online application, including an original birth certificate, proof of address and the name and address of the last school attended, and the office answers at (772) 429-3930 (district Student Assignment page).

The NCES locator lists 3,178 students in grades 9-12 at Fort Pierce Central for 2024-2025, and the district profile lists a capacity of 2453 and hours of 7:33 a.m. to 1:41 p.m.

NCES labels its student column as 2024-2025 data and its address and phone fields as preliminary 2025-2026 submissions (NCES locator, Fort Pierce results). The district profile figure of 2453 is the capacity the district publishes for the campus (Fort Pierce Central district profile).

The school website header repeats the Monday to Friday schedule of 7:33 a.m. to 1:41 p.m. beside the 772-468-5888 phone number (Fort Pierce Central website). The district profile lists the Cobra mascot and purple and gold colors (Fort Pierce Central district profile), and the About Us page calls the school the Home of the Fighting Cobras (Fort Pierce Central About Us page).

The About Us mission says Fort Pierce Central aims to provide a safe and caring environment with challenging academic and career preparedness opportunities, with teachers using a variety of instructional approaches so students become self directed, social, lifelong learners (Fort Pierce Central About Us page).

Fort Pierce Central keeps a Dual Enrollment section on its website with student registration steps, a verification form and a deadlines page, and state law sets the grade point average a student needs to start.

The school's Dual Enrollment page posts an Attention DE Students notice, the Student Registration Steps and the Dual Enrollment Verification document (Fort Pierce Central Dual Enrollment page). The website menu adds a separate Dual Enrollment Deadlines link (Fort Pierce Central website).

For a Fort Pierce Central student seeking college credit, section 1007.271 requires a 3.0 unweighted high school grade point average for initial enrollment, plus demonstrated college level communication and computation skills (section 1007.271, Florida Statutes). The same subsection sets a 2.0 unweighted grade point average for initial and continued enrollment in career certificate dual enrollment courses, and it lets a student lose a seat in a course for being disruptive to the learning process (section 1007.271, Florida Statutes). To stay in college credit courses, the statute requires the student to keep a 3.0 unweighted high school grade point average and meet the minimum postsecondary grade point average the college sets (section 1007.271, Florida Statutes).

The Fort Pierce Central menu lists career and technical education under Academics, along with the curriculum guide and the statewide assessment schedules (Fort Pierce Central website).

The Fort Pierce Central website links parking applications, transcript requests, athletic packets and home game tickets, fine arts, nutrition services and a Title I page.

Student life links include Cobra News, FPC Clubs, the student handbook, the dress code and the homecoming dance contract (Fort Pierce Central website). Transcript requests are split into one form for current seniors and one for former students (Fort Pierce Central website). Under Resources, the site links bus registration and the library collection development plan, and under Nutrition Services it links the meal application, the food menu and an account payment portal (Fort Pierce Central website).

The school's closing line on its home page reads "Once a Cobra, Always a Cobra!" (Fort Pierce Central website). For calendar items, the site posts a monthly events view with a note that schedules are subject to change (Fort Pierce Central website).

The Fort Pierce schools hub lists the other public school options in and near the city. Last verified: October 22, 2026, with the Fort Pierce Central row of the state grades spreadsheet, its district profile, home, About Us and Dual Enrollment pages, the NCES Fort Pierce listing, the Census address lookup, the Student Assignment rules and section 1007.271 each requested again that day.