Morningside Elementary School

Morningside Elementary School in Port St. Lucie earned an A in Florida's 2025-26 school grades, with 74 percent of possible points, and its 2025 letter was also an A.

The state workbook dated September 1, 2026 carries the Gowin Drive campus as school 0221 in district 56, St. Lucie, with school type 01, the code its legend reserves for elementary schools (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades workbook, Morningside row). Morningside's row shows 588 total points earned over 8 components, 100 in the percent tested column, and A in both the Grade 2026 and Grade 2025 columns.

Elementary schools in Florida need 62 percent of points or greater for an A this year, and 54 to 61 percent for a B, according to the note printed above the data rows (FLDOE grading scale note). On that scale Morningside's 74 is an A.

Section 1008.34 defines an A school as one making excellent progress, and it says a school earning an A, as Morningside did, may have greater authority over the allocation of its total budget from the FEFP, state categoricals, lottery funds, grants and local funds (section 1008.34, Florida Statutes).

Morningside's FLDOE record runs back to a C in 1999, and the recent columns show an A in 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026 plus an A informational baseline grade in 2023.

Every letter below is copied from the year columns of the Morningside row; the workbook leaves the 2021 column empty for this school and has no column for 2020 (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades workbook, Morningside row). The 2015 and 2023 columns carry the label informational baseline grade in the state's own headers, which sets those two letters apart from the regular grades around them.

The district profile's welcome message describes Morningside as recognized by the Florida Department of Education as an A-rated school, which agrees with the 2026 and 2025 columns of the state file (St. Lucie Public Schools profile, Morningside Elementary). The same Morningside line also holds C letters in the 2013, 2014 and 2017 columns (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades workbook, Morningside row).

The Blue Jays' campus stands at 2300 SE Gowin Drive in ZIP 34952, a street address that falls within Port St. Lucie city limits on the Census Bureau's incorporated places map.

The district profile gives the address in the form 2300 S.E. Gowin Drive with phone (772) 337-6730 and fax (772) 337-6744 (Morningside district profile). The school's own site repeats the same street, phone and fax in its footer (Morningside Elementary website).

Run through the geocoder's Incorporated Places layer, the address matches as 2300 SE GOWIN DR, PORT ST LUCIE, FL, 34952 and returns Port St. Lucie city, GEOID 1258715 (Gowin Drive lookup in the Census Bureau geocoder). The federal school search lists the same street and phone under St. Lucie County (NCES public school search, Morningside).

On the district map Morningside belongs to the Blue zone and Board District 4 (Morningside district profile). Student Assignment places the Blue Zone below Midway Road on the east side of Florida's Turnpike; it is one of the regional zones the district uses for elementary and middle schools instead of neighborhood schools (St. Lucie Public Schools Student Assignment).

The federal school search counts 653 Morningside students in grades PK-5 for 2024-25, while the district profile lists grades K-5 and a building capacity of 752.

NCES notes that its student membership column comes from official school level data for 2024-2025, and the directory details from preliminary 2025-2026 submissions (NCES public school search, Morningside). The two official records differ on the youngest grade: the NCES line reads PK-5 and the district profile reads K-5, so a family looking for prekindergarten at this Port St. Lucie campus should confirm with the school office (Morningside district profile).

In the state workbook the Gowin Drive school carries YES under Title I, NO under charter school and 63 under the economically disadvantaged percentage (Morningside line of the FLDOE grades file). The profile lists the mascot as the Blue Jay and the school colors as light blue and yellow, and its welcome text closes with the phrase "the Blue Jay way" (Morningside district profile).

Morningside's own site highlights a gifted program and an Odyssey of the Mind team, and its menus link Kids at Hope, PBIS, a School Advisory Council and a Business Partners page.

In its own words the school calls its gifted program "noted for its rigor and relevance" and describes the Odyssey of the Mind program as one that "continues to challenge students to think" (Morningside Elementary website).

Gifted services at a Florida public school such as Morningside fall under the state's exceptional student framework: section 1003.01 defines an exceptional student as one found eligible for a special program under State Board rules, and names gifted students in that definition alongside students with disabilities (section 1003.01, Florida Statutes).

Under its Campus Culture menu the site lists Kids at Hope, PBIS and Parent Committees, and its Parent Info menu links attendance rules, the dress code, a supply list, the Parent Bill of Rights and bus registration (Morningside Elementary website). The district profile adds that the school has earned the Golden School and Five Star School Awards and that a PTO and SAC support school programs (Morningside district profile).

The Five Star honor appears on a dated state list: Morningside Elementary School is among the St. Lucie schools named in a Florida Department of Education release of January 9, 2017 for the 2015-16 Five Star School Award (FLDOE Five Star School Award release, January 9, 2017).

The Morningside bell schedule starts at 8:45 a.m. and dismisses at 3:15 p.m.; early release days end at 1:15 p.m., and the front office keeps 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. hours.

The bell times appear both on the district profile and in the footer of the school site, which also posts the office hours and early release schedule (Morningside Elementary website). The profile links a Safe Routes to School PDF, the school improvement plan and a School Grade and Testing Results page for families who want more detail (Morningside district profile).

Getting a seat at Morningside follows the district's 2 step process: apply to Student Assignment for a school in the family's regional zone, then finish registration at the school once assigned (St. Lucie Public Schools Student Assignment). Uploads for that application start with an original birth certificate and a proof of address, and the office phone is (772) 429-3930. Its age rule for new students says a kindergartner must be 5 years old on or before September 1, with no early entrance.

District headquarters for Morningside: 9461 Brandywine Lane, Port St. Lucie, (772) 429-3600 (Morningside district profile).

Last verified: October 22, 2026. Morningside sources checked that day: its FLDOE workbook line and scale note, the district profile, the school website, the NCES entry, the Gowin Drive geocoder match, Student Assignment, the 2017 Five Star release and sections 1003.01 and 1008.34.