Frances K. Sweet Elementary, near Fort Pierce

The Avenue Q magnet school received a B in Florida's 2025-26 school grades, after a C in the 2025 column and a B in the 2024 column.

On the state grade file dated as of September 1, 2026, the St. Lucie row for school number 0081, the Fort Pierce area campus printed as FRANCES K. SWEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, carries a B under Grade 2026 (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades workbook). That row lists 477 under Total Points Earned, 8 under Total Components, 60 under Percent of Total Possible Points and 100 under Percent Tested.

Because its School Type cell reads 01, the elementary scale printed at the top of the workbook applies to this school near Fort Pierce: B covers 54% to 61% of points, and A starts at 62% of points (grading scale note in the FLDOE workbook). The same row marks the school NO for Charter School and YES for Title I, and it records 100 in the Percent of Economically Disadvantaged Students column.

For the subject reports behind the letter, the district profile of the Fort Pierce area school links a School Grade and Testing Results page, a School Improvement Plan and DOE Publications and Guides under its Academics heading (district profile for F.K. Sweet).

Mathematics Achievement and Mathematics Learning Gains each read 67 in the 2025-26 row for the school near Fort Pierce, and English Language Arts Achievement reads 53.

Every number below for the Fort Pierce area school is copied from row 0081 of the state workbook under the workbook's own column labels (FLDOE workbook, St. Lucie district rows).

Nothing is printed in this row for social studies achievement, middle school acceleration, the 2024-25 graduation rate or 2024-25 college and career acceleration, and the district profile gives a K-5 grade span (district profile). The school's website adds that it runs tutoring for all 3rd through 5th grade students and a Science Camp held right before FSA time (Frances K. Sweet Elementary website).

The workbook's history columns for school 0081 near Fort Pierce read B for 2024, C for the 2023 informational baseline, C for 2022, C for 2019 and 2018, and B for 2017.

The table repeats the history cells of the Fort Pierce area row as printed (FLDOE 2025-26 workbook, grade history columns). The workbook has no 2020 column, and the Grade 2021 cell for this school is empty.

Between those last rows, each column from Grade 2012 back to Grade 2001 shows an A for the school (FLDOE workbook). The 2015 and 2023 columns carry the workbook label Informational Baseline Grade rather than the plain Grade label used in the other columns.

No: the Census Bureau geocoder places 1400 Avenue Q in the Fort Pierce North census designated place, outside the incorporated City of Fort Pierce, so the school sits near Fort Pierce rather than in it.

The geocoder matched the address as 1400 AVE Q, FORT PIERCE, FL, 34950 and returned Fort Pierce North CDP, GEOID 1224337, in St. Lucie County, with no incorporated place in its answer (Census Bureau geocoder result for 1400 Avenue Q). The district still prints Fort Pierce as the mailing city.

St. Lucie Public Schools lists the campus at 1400 Avenue Q, Fort Pierce, FL 34950, with phone (772) 468-5330 and fax (772) 468-5334, and it links a Map/Directions page and a Safe Routes to School PDF from the same profile (district profile). The profile also places the school in school Board District 5.

The federal school locator lists frances k. sweet elementary school at 1400 AVENUE Q with 439 students in its 2024-2025 membership column and a grade span of PK-5 (NCES public school locator, Fort Pierce results). The district profile gives the grade span as K-5 and a capacity of 777.

The district's school directory describes the campus near Fort Pierce as a K-5 traditional academic, multicultural magnet school open to families in the Red Zone and the Green Zone.

The Magnet Schools section of the directory defines magnet schools as schools with attractor programs and lists F. K. Sweet Elementary under that heading (St. Lucie Public Schools directory). The same heading also lists Creative Arts Academy of St. Lucie, Fairlawn Elementary, Fort Pierce Westwood Academy, Samuel S. Gaines Academy of Emerging Technologies and Lincoln Park Academy, the last of which the directory also files under 6-12 Schools. Its school profile records the zone as Red/Green, the Lion as mascot and red, white and blue as school colors (district profile).

Student Assignment draws the Green Zone north of Midway Road and the Red Zone south of Midway Road and west of Florida's Turnpike, and it says every zone includes portions of both Fort Pierce and Port St. Lucie (Student Assignment page).

The website of the Fort Pierce area school lists Guidance, Extra-Curricular, Media Center and Music pages and a page named MOA Discovery Program, and its resources include a dress code, supply lists, lunch menus, PBiS and pages for gifted students and students with disabilities (school website menu).

Magnet seats at the campus near Fort Pierce are handled by the district Student Assignment Office at (772) 429-3930, and bus riders are registered with the Transportation department.

According to the directory, parents seeking a Fort Pierce area magnet seat may apply for a magnet school once the child receives a social security number, the magnet application is only available at the Student Assignment Office, and seats are assigned by the date of application (magnet rules in the district directory). The Student Assignment page instead describes a 2 STEP process: an online application for a regional zone or another choice option, then registration at the school once assigned (Student Assignment application process). Because the two pages describe the magnet route differently, a call to the office settles which applies to a given child.

A child entering kindergarten at a Fort Pierce area school must be 5 years old on or before September 1, and the Student Assignment page states there is no early entrance. First-time applicants upload an original birth certificate, proof of address, the name and address of the last school attended and, when available, a Social Security card (required documents).

For transport, the district says Community Bus Stops serve mainly magnet schools and attractor programs, sit at centralized points that are not meant to be within walking distance of every home, and are not moved on individual request (Transportation department page). The North Transportation Complex at 601 S. 29th St. in Fort Pierce takes calls at (772) 204-RIDE (7433), and the Here Comes the Bus app uses school code 77914 for live bus locations.

Classes at the Avenue Q school near Fort Pierce run from 8:45 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. on the district profile, and the profile names YMCA of the Treasure Coast as the after school care provider at (772) 878-7337.

The Fort Pierce area profile lists those hours with the K-5 grade span and the 777 seat capacity (district profile, General Information). The school website repeats the phone number (772) 468-5330 in its header, invites families to join the PTO through the front office and links a school YouTube channel (school website).

Families comparing nearby choices can find the other Fort Pierce area schools in the Fort Pierce schools guide, which links each campus page. Last verified: October 22, 2026, by re-reading school 0081 in the FLDOE grade workbook, the F.K. Sweet profile and website, the district directory, Student Assignment and Transportation pages, the NCES Fort Pierce locator and a Census geocoder match of 1400 Avenue Q.