Rivers Edge Elementary School

Rivers Edge Elementary School in Port St. Lucie received an A for 2025-26, scoring 65 percent of the points available on the state's elementary scale.

The state lists Rivers Edge as school 0381 in the St. Lucie district, number 56, with school type 01 for an elementary campus. Its line records 517 points earned over 8 components and a tested rate of 99 percent (FLDOE 2025-26 School Grades workbook, Rivers Edge line). Under the elementary cutoffs printed in the workbook note, an A requires 62 percent of points or more and a B covers 54 to 61 percent (FLDOE workbook, elementary scale note).

In the Rivers Edge cells, science achievement reads 71 and the mathematics learning gains of the lowest 25 percent read 58; the social studies and middle school acceleration columns are empty on this elementary line (FLDOE workbook, school 0381 cells F to O).

The Rivers Edge line carries letters in every graded column from 1999 to 2026 except 2021, opening with a C in 1999 and closing with an A in 2026.

There is no 2020 column in the state file, the 2021 cell for Rivers Edge is empty, and the 2015 and 2023 letters appear under headings marked informational baseline (FLDOE workbook, Rivers Edge letter cells).

Florida law gives each letter a fixed description: A stands for excellent progress, B for above average progress, C for satisfactory progress and D for less than satisfactory progress (section 1008.34, Florida Statutes). The only D on the Rivers Edge line sits in the 2014 column, between a C in the 2013 column and an A in the 2015 informational baseline column. For the reports behind the current letter, the district profile links a School Grade and Testing Results page and the School Improvement Plan (Rivers Edge profile, Academics).

Rivers Edge Elementary is at 5600 NE St. James Drive, Port St. Lucie, FL 34983, and the Census Bureau geocoder places that address inside the city of Port St. Lucie.

The district profile writes the address as 5600 N.E. St. James Dr. and lists (772) 785-5600 for the main line and (772) 785-5625 for fax (St. Lucie Public Schools profile, Rivers Edge Elementary). Queried with that street, the Census geocoder matches 5600 ST JAMES DR, PORT ST LUCIE, FL, 34983 and returns the incorporated place Port St. Lucie, GEOID 1258715 (U.S. Census Bureau geocoder, Incorporated Places layer). The NCES school locator spells the street out as 5600 NE SAINT JAMES DR (NCES public school search, Rivers Edge).

The profile places the school in the Blue zone and School Board District 3 (Rivers Edge profile, General Information). Student Assignment defines the Blue Zone as the part of the county south of Midway Road and east of Florida's Turnpike, on a page that describes the zone dividing lines as including portions of Fort Pierce and Port St. Lucie (Student Assignment, zone description).

The federal locator lists 778 students in grades PK-5 at Rivers Edge, and the district gives the school a capacity of 890.

The 778 figure is the Students entry in the NCES search result for the school (NCES school search result). The district profile states the grade span as PreK-5, the capacity as 890, the mascot as Oscar the Otter and the colors as navy blue and hunter green (Rivers Edge profile).

On the state file Rivers Edge is flagged as a Title I school, not a charter, with 69.6 entered in the column for the percent of economically disadvantaged students (FLDOE workbook, columns AY to BC, Rivers Edge). The profile's welcome message gives the school motto as The School with a Heart of Gold, and the same phrase runs across the school's home page (Rivers Edge Elementary website).

At Rivers Edge in Port St. Lucie, classes run from 8:45 a.m. to 3:15 p.m., students may arrive for breakfast starting at 8:15 a.m., and the front office keeps hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The school home page lists separate numbers for each office: (772) 785-5600 for the main line, (772) 785-5610 for the clinic and (772) 785-5601 for attendance (Rivers Edge Elementary website, School Hours and Contact Us). The 8:45 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. bell schedule matches the hours on the district profile, and the profile's After School Care entry points to the Boys and Girls Clubs, (772) 398-0291 (Rivers Edge profile, hours and after school care).

Florida law makes each parent of a child of compulsory attendance age responsible for that child's attendance, and it treats an absence taken with the permission of the head of the school as one a parent is not responsible for (section 1003.24, Florida Statutes). The Rivers Edge documents and links lists include a Register to Ride the Bus form and the cafeteria meal application (Rivers Edge website, Documents and Links).

The Rivers Edge website groups its activities under Campus Culture, with pages for clubs and organizations, Kids at Hope, PBIS, the PTO and the School Advisory Council.

Photo albums on the home page are captioned with the Otter Tones Choir, the Wilderness Club, a Winter Festival and an MLK float, and the Parents menu carries Otter News Monthly, a Parents Bill of Rights page, PE uniforms, supply lists and Skyward Family Access (Rivers Edge Elementary website, menus and albums). The documents and links lists add the 2026-2027 student handbook, the dress code, a PE uniform order form in English and Spanish, and minutes from the Rivers Edge School Advisory Council (Rivers Edge website, Documents).

A seat at Rivers Edge for a family new to St. Lucie Public Schools runs through Student Assignment in two steps, applying online for the Blue zone or another choice option and then registering online after the assignment is made; the office phone is (772) 429-3930 (Student Assignment, two step process). The district headquarters printed at the foot of the Rivers Edge profile is 9461 Brandywine Lane, (772) 429-3600 (Rivers Edge profile, district footer).

Last verified: October 22, 2026, re-reading the Rivers Edge line in the FLDOE grades file, the district profile and school website, the NCES and Census geocoder results, the Student Assignment page and sections 1003.24 and 1008.34.