Samuel S. Gaines Academy of Emerging Technologies, Fort Pierce

Gaines Academy, a K-8 campus on South Jenkins Road in Fort Pierce, received an A for 2025-26 with 65 percent of total possible points.

The state workbook dated September 1, 2026 carries the school as SAMUEL S. GAINES ACADEMY OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, school number 0141 in district 56, ST. LUCIE (Florida Department of Education grades workbook). In that Gaines row, the Grade 2026 cell reads A, Total Points Earned reads 652, Total Components reads 10 and Percent Tested reads 98.

Its School Type cell reads 04, a combination school in the workbook legend, so the Fort Pierce academy falls under the high and combination scale. On that scale the workbook note requires 65% of points or more for an A; a B covers 60% to 64%, a C 45% to 59%, a D 35% to 44%, and 34% or below is an F (FLDOE grading note).

At the end of the Gaines Academy row the workbook marks the academy as a Title I school that is not a charter, with 98 recorded as the percent of economically disadvantaged students (Florida Department of Education grades workbook).

The Fort Pierce academy's row shows 92 for Middle School Acceleration, 77 for Social Studies Achievement and 34 for Grade 3 English Language Arts Achievement.

Every number below is copied from the Gaines Academy row under the column names the Fort Pierce school's state record uses (Florida Department of Education grades workbook). No values appear in the Gaines row for graduation rate or college and career acceleration, and the district profile lists grades K-8.

The district profile for the Fort Pierce academy links its School Grade and Testing Results and School Improvement Plan pages, and the school site links FL Assessment Results and a Scope and Sequence curriculum guide (Gaines Academy district profile; school site).

The workbook lists A for Gaines Academy in 2026, 2025 and 2024, B in the 2023 baseline, 2022 and 2019 cells, and lower letters in older columns back to 2008.

The table reproduces the Gaines history cells as printed (Florida Department of Education grades workbook). The 2023 and 2015 entries are Informational Baseline Grades, there is no 2020 column, and the Grade 2021 cell is empty. The Gaines row also leaves Grade 2007 and every earlier column empty, which makes Grade 2008 the oldest filled cell for this Fort Pierce school.

Gaines Academy stands at 2250 South Jenkins Road in Fort Pierce, ZIP 34947, an address the Census Bureau geocoder matches to the city of Fort Pierce.

The district profile prints the address as 2250 S. Jenkins Road, Ft. Pierce, FL 34947, with phone (772) 462-8888, fax (772) 468-5004, hours of 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., grades K-8, the Green zone, Board District 5 and a capacity of 1666 (district profile). The Gaines profile gives the Colts as mascot and red and gold as colors; the about page names the mascot Sammy the Colt (Gaines Academy about page).

Run through the Census Bureau geocoder, the Jenkins Road campus came back as 2250 S JENKINS RD, FORT PIERCE, FL, 34947 inside the incorporated place Fort Pierce city, GEOID 1224300, in St. Lucie County (Census geocoder match). Questions for the district itself go to 9461 Brandywine Lane, Port St. Lucie, phone (772) 429-3600, as listed on the Gaines profile.

The Green zone on the profile is one of three regional zones; the Student Assignment page says the Green Zone is north of Midway Road, while the Blue and Red zones lie south of it on either side of Florida's Turnpike, and that each zone takes in portions of Fort Pierce and Port St. Lucie (zone description). The same page says zones let the district give preference to brothers and sisters of enrolled students and to households within two miles of a school.

St. Lucie Public Schools describes Gaines Academy as a countywide STEM K-8 magnet featuring virtual and augmented reality, gaming and computer coding.

The district directory's Magnet Schools entry calls the Fort Pierce campus a STEM K-8 Magnet School with learning through virtual and augmented reality, gaming and computer coding, and marks it County-wide (St. Lucie Public Schools school directory). The Gaines profile, by contrast, lists the zone as Green.

The academy's homepage says new courses introduce computer coding, gaming, robotics, agri-technology, medicine and augmented and virtual reality applications, alongside the Leader in Me program (Gaines Academy homepage). Its Academic Programs menu lists Project Lead the Way, ESE, STEM, Leader in Me, Music and Band and Clubs.

The about page says Gaines is a Kids at Hope school and describes the program's three universal truths, starting with the belief that all children are capable of success, no exceptions (about page). The homepage also describes a Parent Teacher Organization, a School Advisory Council that meets monthly and a School Volunteer Program at the Fort Pierce school.

Gaines Academy's about page describes the Fort Pierce school's namesake as a member of the St. Lucie County School Board.

That Fort Pierce page says Samuel S. Gaines served on the St. Lucie County School Board, that he worked to improve scores on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test and addressed busing issues within the school system, and it calls an academy bearing his name fitting for his commitment to children and education (Who is Samuel S. Gaines?).

Seats at Gaines Academy, a magnet, are handled by the district's Student Assignment Office, reachable at (772) 429-3930.

Under its Magnet Schools heading, the district directory says only the Student Assignment Office hands out magnet applications and that students are placed by date of application, which can begin once a child has a social security number (magnet application rules). The Student Assignment page describes an online application followed by registration at the assigned school, so the two district pages describe the Gaines route in different terms (Student Assignment Office page).

For Gaines Academy applicants, that Student Assignment page says its staff can assist in French, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Italian, Portuguese and English.

Magnet riders bound for the Jenkins Road campus may be routed to a Community Bus Stop, a centralized pickup point the Transportation department says serves magnet schools and attractor programs and is not meant to be within walking distance of every student (Transportation department page). Bus questions go to (772) 204-RIDE (7433), the number listed for the department's complex on South 29th Street in Fort Pierce.

Last verified: October 22, 2026; for this guide the Gaines Academy row 0141 in the state grades workbook, the district profile and directory, the Student Assignment and Transportation pages, the academy's homepage and about page, and a Census geocoder lookup of 2250 S. Jenkins Road were each fetched again.