Floresta Elementary, Port St. Lucie

Floresta Elementary in Port St. Lucie received a C for 2025-26, with 53 percent of total possible points.

In the Florida Department of Education workbook dated as of September 1, 2026, FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL appears as school 0241 in district 56, ST. LUCIE, with C in the Grade 2026 column (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades workbook). Further along the Floresta row, the points total reads 427 across 8 components, and the share of students tested reads 99.

With 01 in its School Type cell, Floresta falls under the elementary scale. The workbook's heading note sets that scale's C band at 41% to 53% of points and its B band at 54% to 61% (FLDOE elementary grading scale).

Florida's grading statute describes a C as a school making satisfactory progress, one step below the above average progress wording it uses for a B (section 1008.34, Florida Statutes). The state file flags Floresta as Title I and not a charter school, and its Percent of Economically Disadvantaged Students cell reads 96.

On the separate FLDOE list of Title I schools for 2024-25, FLORESTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is shown with 657 total students ages 5 to 17 and 497 children from low-income families, printed as 75.65% (FLDOE 2024-25 Title I school list). That Floresta list uses its own student count, separate from the federal enrollment figure cited further down.

At Floresta, Mathematics Learning Gains of the Lowest 25% reads 29, while Mathematics Achievement reads 60.

The table repeats each scored cell and the summary cells of the Floresta row as FLDOE prints them (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades workbook). Grade 3 English Language Arts Achievement, English Language Arts Learning Gains and Mathematics Achievement each read 60 for the Port St. Lucie school.

The math cell for the lowest 25 percent tracks a specific group. Under section 1008.34 the group is identified from prior year statewide test results, and the cell is the percentage of that group making learning gains on the mathematics assessment (section 1008.34, Florida Statutes). For Floresta families reading the row, that 29 is about growth among that group, not about passing rates for the whole school.

Columns for social studies, middle school acceleration, graduation and college and career acceleration are empty on the Floresta row. For the school's own breakdown, the district profile points to its School Grade and Testing Results link, the School Improvement Plan and a set of DOE publications (St. Lucie Public Schools profile for Floresta).

Floresta's row shows A in the Grade 2014, 2011, 2007, 2004 and 2000 columns, and C in each of the Grade 2024, 2025 and 2026 columns.

The 2025-26 workbook carries no 2020 column, leaves the Grade 2021 cell blank for Floresta, and labels the 2023 and 2015 columns Informational Baseline Grade; the Port St. Lucie school shows B and C in those two (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades workbook).

Florida's school report card rule in section 1008.34 has the department publish each school's report card every year on its website, listing the grade together with student performance by subject (section 1008.34, Florida Statutes). That report card, rather than this table, carries Floresta's subject detail for any single year.

Floresta Elementary sits at 1501 SE Floresta Drive, Port St. Lucie, FL 34983, an address the Census geocoder matches inside Port St. Lucie city.

Matched as 1501 SE FLORESTA DR, PORT ST LUCIE, FL, 34983, the address falls in the Incorporated Places entry Port St. Lucie city, GEOID 1258715 (Census geocoder result for 1501 SE Floresta Dr). The school website prints the same location with phone 772-340-4755 and fax 772-340-4756 (Floresta Elementary website).

On the district profile, Floresta's General Information block reads 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. for hours, then Grades K-5, Zone Blue, Board District 4, Capacity 741, Mascot Dolphin and Colors Purple and Turquoise for Floresta (district profile).

Two official listings differ on the youngest grade. The district profile says K-5, while the NCES public school search lists floresta elementary school at 1501 SE FLORESTA DR with 659 students in grades PK-5 (NCES public school search, Port St. Lucie). Families looking for a prekindergarten seat in Port St. Lucie can confirm with the Student Assignment office before counting on Floresta.

Floresta sits in the district's Blue Zone, the zone lying below Midway Road on the east side of Florida's Turnpike, and seats come through the Student Assignment office at (772) 429-3930.

St. Lucie Public Schools assigns elementary and middle school students by regional zone rather than by neighborhood, giving preference to families with a sibling at the school or living within two miles (Student Assignment, St. Lucie Public Schools). A Floresta application starts online with a birth certificate, proof of address and the last school attended, and registration at the school follows once the seat is assigned.

The Student Assignment page lists separate windows for early enrollment, open enrollment and transfer petitions for K-8 schools such as Floresta, and says the office can assist families in six languages, Haitian Creole and Portuguese among them (Student Assignment dates and languages).

Florida's controlled open enrollment law, section 1002.31, describes a system in which a district uses the parent's stated school preference as a significant factor in assignment, and it requires each district to post its process online, include a lottery and an appeals route for hardship cases, and let parents ask for siblings to be placed together (section 1002.31, Florida Statutes). St. Lucie Public Schools posts its own dates and steps on the Student Assignment page cited above.

Section 1002.31 also requires grade level capacity figures for each district school to be refreshed at 12 week intervals and shown on the district website (section 1002.31, Florida Statutes); the Floresta profile, for its part, prints a capacity of 741.

Floresta Elementary posts a Parent and Family Engagement Plan in English, Spanish, Creole and Portuguese and lists Hope's Closet among its resources.

The Floresta website's Family Engagement block invites feedback on the plan by email to administration, and its resource list includes Dress Code, Student Handbook and Planner, Supply Lists, School Calendar, Bus Information, Lunch Menu, Meal Application, School Pay and Student Performance Matters (Floresta Elementary website). Its menu also carries Grace Packs, PTO and Directions pages.

Library links on the Port St. Lucie school's site cover Destiny for searching the collection, classroom libraries through Beanstack and a Library Collection Plan, and the documents list adds the Student Code of Conduct, a bullying and harassment notice and the Student Progression Plan (Floresta Elementary resources). Students can also reach a free Microsoft Office ProPlus offer from the same page.

For buses, the district Transportation menu offers a bus route finder, a Non-Transportation Zone Map, a Pay Rider Plan and an Alternate Address Form, and the department answers at (772) 204-RIDE (7433) from its South Transportation Complex in Port St. Lucie and its North complex in Fort Pierce (Transportation, St. Lucie Public Schools). Floresta's own Bus Information link sits in its resource list.

The Floresta profile names the Boys and Girls Clubs at (772) 398-0291 under After School Care (district profile), and school hours on the website read M-F 8:30-3:00.

Last verified: October 22, 2026, by rereading Floresta's row 3152 in the FLDOE 2025-26 workbook, its line on the 2024-25 Title I list, the district profile, Student Assignment and Transportation pages, the school site, the NCES Port St. Lucie listing, sections 1008.34 and 1002.31, and the Census geocoder match.