Lawnwood Elementary School, Fort Pierce

Lawnwood Elementary in Fort Pierce received a B for 2025-26 with 56 percent of possible points, the same letter its row shows for 2025 and 2024.

In the FLDOE workbook headed 2025-26 School Grades as of September 1, 2026, LAWNWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL appears as school 0061 of district 56, ST. LUCIE (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades workbook). The Fort Pierce row totals 445 points over 8 graded components, and 98 percent of eligible students were tested.

Elementary schools such as this Fort Pierce campus carry School Type 01 and use the elementary scale printed at the top of the workbook: A at 62% of points or greater, B from 54% to 61%, C from 41% to 53%, D from 32% to 40%, and F at 31% or less (elementary grading scale in the FLDOE file).

The same Fort Pierce row reads NO for Charter School, YES for Title I and N for Alternative/ESE Center School, with 100 in the economically disadvantaged column (FLDOE row for school 0061). Lawnwood's district profile links its School Grade and Testing Results and its School Improvement Plan (Lawnwood Elementary district profile).

The highest scored cell in the Fort Pierce school's row is English language arts learning gains at 66, and the lowest is mathematics learning gains of the lowest 25% at 39.

Labels below follow the state's column names, and every number is the workbook's own for school 0061 (FLDOE school grades workbook). The Fort Pierce elementary row has a value in the Grade 3 English Language Arts Achievement column, and its social studies and middle school acceleration cells are empty.

Read side by side, the Fort Pierce row shows reading gains for the lowest quartile at 65 against math gains for the same group at 39 (component cells for school 0061). The district profile's School Improvement Plan link is where the school sets out its own targets (district profile academics links).

Yes: the Fort Pierce school's row shows A for 2004, 2008, 2010 and 2011, and its lowest letters are D in 2015, 2016 and 2019.

Each letter for school 0061 is copied below as printed (FLDOE school grades workbook, row 0061). The workbook has no 2020 column, it carries a 2021 letter for this Fort Pierce campus, and it labels 2023 and 2015 as informational baselines.

The remaining columns in the Fort Pierce row read B for 2009, 2007 and 2006, and C for 2005, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000 and 1999 (remaining year cells for school 0061).

Lawnwood Elementary is at 1900 South 23rd Street, Fort Pierce, FL 34950, an address the Census Bureau geocoder places inside the city of Fort Pierce.

Front office calls for the Fort Pierce campus go to (772) 468-5740 and faxes to (772) 468-5204. The St. Lucie Public Schools profile also shows grades PreK-5, the Green zone, school board District 5 and room for 825 students (St. Lucie Public Schools profile for Lawnwood). Leopards are the mascot, navy and gold the colors, and Map/Directions plus a Safe Routes to School PDF are linked from the same Lawnwood page.

For the city limits question, a geocoder lookup returned 1900 S 23RD ST, FORT PIERCE, FL, 34950 with the incorporated place Fort Pierce city, GEOID 1224300, and the county St. Lucie County, GEOID 12111 (Census Bureau geocoder result).

Questions that go past the Fort Pierce school itself go to the district headquarters at 9461 Brandywine Lane in Port St. Lucie, 34986-2209, telephone (772) 429-3600, printed at the foot of the Lawnwood profile (district profile footer).

The Fort Pierce school day runs 8:25 to 2:55, and the school takes no dismissal changes after 2:15pm, or after 11:30 am on early release days.

Both official pages agree on the hours: the district profile lists 8:25 a.m. to 2:55 p.m., and the school website's Bell Schedule reads 8:25 to 2:55 (district profile hours; Lawnwood website bell schedule). For a change in how a child gets home, the Fort Pierce school asks parents to send in a note, and it states that no changes can take place over the phone.

Quick links on the Fort Pierce site cover Kindergarten Registration, the Lunch Menu, a Meal Application, Transportation Information and Bus Registration, the Uniform policy, an Assessment Calendar and the Voluntary Pre-kindergarten/Title I Program (Lawnwood Elementary website links). The site menu also has pages for Supply Lists and Dress Code, PAWS, Business Partners and Volunteers, the PTO and the SAC.

The Fort Pierce school says it offers a full-time gifted program to eligible students and runs as both a Kids at Hope School and a PBIS school.

On its About Us page, Lawnwood names Reading, Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Music, Technology and Physical Education as parts of the daily schedule, and it says students and teachers have computer equipment in classrooms and a computer lab (Lawnwood About Us page). The motto printed for the Fort Pierce campus is Many Leopards, One Roar.

Among the highlights the About Us page lists are an active SAC and PTO, monthly Night of Family Learning events, Nationally Board Certified Teachers, instructional coaches, over 15,000 volunteer hours with a Golden School Award, the Commissioner of Education's Five Star School Award for community involvement, a Big Brothers/Big Sisters mentoring program and St. Lucie County Education Foundation classroom grants (school highlights list). These are the Fort Pierce school's own statements.

Lawnwood's About Us page in Fort Pierce explains PBIS as Positive Behavior Intervention and Support, a team-based process that shifts attention to what children are doing right and rewards students who follow school-wide expectations, with rewards earned rather than offered in exchange (PBIS explanation).

A seat at Lawnwood comes through the district's Student Assignment Office, (772) 429-3930, and the Fort Pierce school belongs to the Green Zone north of Midway Road.

St. Lucie Public Schools runs regional zones rather than neighborhood attendance lines, and its school directory names Lawnwood Elementary in the elementary list while telling parents they pick among schools close to home (district school directory). Midway Road and Florida's Turnpike divide the three elementary and middle zones, each taking in parts of Fort Pierce and Port St. Lucie, and families with a sibling already enrolled or a home within two miles of the school get preference (Student Assignment page).

Fort Pierce parents of young children face the district's age cutoffs: a kindergartner must turn 5 on or before September 1, a first grader must turn 6 by that date and have attended kindergarten, and a VPK child must be 4 by September 1; the page states there is no early entrance for kindergarten or first grade (district age requirements). Kindergarten registration also calls for a physical examination dated within 12 months.

School buses for Lawnwood riders are dispatched by the district Transportation department; its North Transportation Complex sits at 601 S. 29th St. in Fort Pierce, and families reach it at (772) 204-RIDE (7433) (SLPS Transportation department). The department's tracking app, Here Comes the Bus, takes the code 77914.

In the FLDOE Title I school list, LAWNWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in Fort Pierce shows 760 students ages 5-17, of whom 698 are counted as children from low-income families, 91.84%, with SW in the program type column (FLDOE Title I school list).

Last verified: October 22, 2026, by re-reading the Lawnwood row 0061 in the FLDOE grades workbook and its Title I list entry, the district profile, the school's home and About Us pages, the district directory, Student Assignment and Transportation pages, and a geocoder match for 1900 South 23rd Street, Fort Pierce.