Indian River Academy, near Vero Beach

Indian River Academy, the Florida Ridge elementary near Vero Beach, earned an A for 2025-26, and its state row shows 70 percent of total possible points.

In the FLDOE workbook titled 2025-26 School Grades as of September 1, 2026, row 1740 names INDIAN RIVER ACADEMY, the Vero Beach area school numbered 0221 in district 31, INDIAN RIVER. The Grade 2026, Grade 2025 and Grade 2024 cells each read A (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades file). Total Points Earned reads 558 on 8 components, and Percent Tested reads 99.

The Florida Ridge academy is graded as an elementary school (School Type 01), and the note printed above the data sets that scale's A at 62% of points or greater, a B at 54% to 61% and a C at 41% to 53% (FLDOE grades file, scale note). Middle, high and combination schools are graded on separate scales printed in the same note. Other cells in the academy's row read NO for Charter School, YES for Title I and 81.5 for Percent of Economically Disadvantaged Students.

Mathematics Learning Gains is the highest component cell in the row for the Florida Ridge school, at 79, and Grade 3 English Language Arts Achievement and English Language Arts Achievement are the lowest at 59 each.

Every value below for the school near Vero Beach is copied from row 1740 with the column names the state uses (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades file); the total and percentage are FLDOE's own cells.

In the Vero Beach area academy's row, no value is printed under social studies, acceleration or graduation, and Total Components reads 8.

The Florida Ridge school's row reads A for 2026, 2025 and 2024 and B for 2022, while its oldest cells include a C for 1999.

The selection below copies cells from the same row for the academy near Vero Beach without change (FLDOE grades file, row 1740). The state left the Grade 2021 cell blank for the academy, the file carries no 2020 column, and the 2023 and 2015 headers read Informational Baseline Grade.

For the academy near Vero Beach the run of cells continues through the 2000s, ending at the Grade 1999 column; the Indian River County schools guide covers the district's other campuses.

Indian River Academy sits at 500 20th Street SW, which uses a Vero Beach mailing address; a Census lookup of that exact address lands in Florida Ridge CDP, outside the City of Vero Beach.

The academy's website gives 500 20th Street SW, Vero Beach, FL 32962, main number (772) 564-3390 and fax (772) 564-3443 (Indian River Academy website). The 2026-2027 Parent Guide prints the same address with phone 564-3390, grades Prek-5th and the tag #MyIRA (SDIRC Parent Guide, school contacts), and the NCES search lists 500 20TH ST SW, VERO BEACH, FL 32962 (NCES Indian River school list).

A Census Bureau geocoder lookup on October 22, 2026 found the school's own address, 500 20TH ST SW, VERO BEACH, FL, 32962, returned Florida Ridge CDP, GEOID 1223050, and listed no city for it (Census geocoder result for 500 20th Street SW).

The Florida Ridge academy's home page calls it "A School of Aerospace and Robotics" and calls its students the Space Bears, under the motto AIM HIGH.

Those phrases appear in the gallery banner of the website for the school near Vero Beach, beside the grade span PreK-5 and the main number (school website banner). Course detail is not printed on the home page; its menu points to pages on the school's story, families, dining, transportation, community connections and instructional materials, so the theme is stated here in the school's own words only.

The academy is one of the sites the Parent Guide lists for full-day Voluntary Prekindergarten (540 hours), along with Beachland, Dodgertown, Fellsmere, Pelican Island Classical Magnet, Sebastian and Vero Beach elementaries (Parent Guide, VPK). District VPK seats are filled by lottery, carry no bus service and need a child who turns 4 on or before September 1; the first step is a call to 772-564-6091.

Indian River County's public shelter layer lists the academy as a south county shelter that opens in wave 3, with a capacity of 1,009.

The county record reads INDIAN RIVER ACADEMY, 500 20TH ST SW, VERO BEACH, Emergency_Function SHELTER, CNTY_AREA SOUTH COUNTY, OPEN_ORDER WAVE 3, CAPACITY 1009 (Indian River County public shelters layer). The INFORMATION and CONTACT fields in the academy's record are empty, and the layer does not define what each wave means; the Indian River County hurricane shelters guide covers shelter openings.

State law ties school buildings such as the Florida Ridge academy to shelter planning. Section 1013.372 directs the Department of Education to work with school boards and emergency management offices on public shelter design criteria for the Florida Building Code, so that suitable new educational facilities can serve as public shelters (section 1013.372, Florida Statutes). A facility whose design contract is signed after those criteria enter the code must be built to the amended code unless the facility, or a part of it, is exempted from the shelter criteria. The same section has the Division of Emergency Management submit a statewide emergency shelter plan by January 31 of each even-numbered year, naming the general location and square footage of existing and needed shelters by regional planning council region, and it says that after the plan is approved a board may not be required to build more emergency shelter space than the plan identifies as needed.

At the Florida Ridge campus the school day runs 9:00 a.m. to 3:40 p.m., NCES counts 444 students, and the academy has a schoolwide Title I program.

The home page of the academy near Vero Beach posts 9:00 am to 3:40 pm, and the Parent Guide's elementary schedule matches it, with a 1:50 p.m. dismissal on modified days (Parent Guide schedules). Indian River Academy has its own registration link in the Extended Day Program, which covers kindergarten through 5th grade from 7:00 a.m. until the morning bell and from dismissal until 6:00 p.m.

NCES and the state Title I list report different counts for the Vero Beach area academy. NCES shows 444 students in grades PK-5, using official 2024-2025 membership data (NCES school list). The FLDOE 2024-25 Title I list shows 447 students ages 5 to 17, 367 children from low-income families and 82.10%, with program type SW (FLDOE 2024-25 Title I list).

A Florida Ridge family outside the academy's zone applies through the district's choice lottery, and choice riders arrange a depot stop with the Department of Transportation instead of a neighborhood stop, according to the Parent Guide (Parent Guide, choice and transportation). Morning Extended Day care at the academy follows the K-5 hours of 7:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., and its own online registration link appears in the program's campus list.

Last verified: October 22, 2026, by rereading the Florida Ridge academy's row 1740 in the state grades workbook, the 2024-25 Title I list, the school website, the county shelter layer, the 2026-2027 Parent Guide, the NCES list, section 1013.372 and the geocoder answer for 500 20th Street SW.