Southern Oaks Middle School

Southern Oaks Middle School, the grades 6 to 8 campus on St. James Drive near Port St. Lucie, was graded B for 2025-26 with 62 percent of the points it could earn.

In the Florida Department of Education's 2025-26 file the Southern Oaks row is school 0391 in the St. Lucie district, number 56, typed 02 for middle schools (FLDOE 2025-26 grades file, Southern Oaks row). The St. Lucie middle school collected 560 points on 9 components and tested 97 percent of its eligible students; its letters for 2025 and 2024 are both C.

Middle schools in Florida, Southern Oaks included, use their own cut points in the file's note: an A needs 64% of points or more, a B covers 57% to 63%, and a C covers 44% to 56% (middle school grading scale, FLDOE note).

Each row label above paraphrases an FLDOE column heading for readers near Port St. Lucie; the numbers are the Southern Oaks cells exactly as printed, in the file's column order (FLDOE file, school 0391).

The Southern Oaks row begins with a C in the 1999 column, shows A letters from 2008 through 2011, and ends with the B for 2026.

The state file for the St. Lucie district has no column for 2020, leaves the Southern Oaks cell for 2021 empty, and labels the 2015 and 2023 letters informational baseline grades (FLDOE 2025-26 file, Southern Oaks letter columns). Adjacent years with the same letter are grouped in the table; every letter is the one printed for that year.

From 2012 through 2019 the Southern Oaks cells read B in each column that has a letter, and the 2015 letter in that run is the baseline B (FLDOE file, Southern Oaks columns AB to AI). Detail behind each Southern Oaks letter sits behind two links on the district profile, School Grade and Testing Results and School Improvement Plan (Southern Oaks Middle profile, St. Lucie Public Schools).

Southern Oaks Middle stands at 5500 NE St. James Drive with a Port St. Lucie, FL 34983 mailing address, in the district's Blue zone.

St. Lucie Public Schools gives the Southern Oaks phone as (772) 785-5640 and the fax as (772) 785-5660 (Southern Oaks district profile). NCES spells the street out as 5500 NE SAINT JAMES DR, PORT ST LUCIE (NCES school search, Southern Oaks Middle), and the school's own site prints the same N.E. St. James Drive address in its footer (Southern Oaks Middle website).

On the profile the Port St. Lucie area middle school is listed in the Blue zone and School Board District 3 (Southern Oaks profile). The Blue zone is the district's area south of Midway Road and east of Florida's Turnpike; those two roads divide the three zones, and each zone holds some of Fort Pierce and some of Port St. Lucie (Student Assignment, St. Lucie Public Schools).

NCES counts 833 students in grades 6-8 at Southern Oaks for 2024-25, and the St. Lucie district rates the building for 1154.

The enrollment number sits in the NCES locator's 2024-2025 column for the Port St. Lucie address (NCES public school search); the capacity, the 6-8 grade span and the Hawk mascot come from the district profile, which lists burgundy and teal as school colors (Southern Oaks profile).

In the FLDOE file, Southern Oaks is not a charter school, carries a Title I flag, and shows 78 in the column for the percent of economically disadvantaged students (FLDOE file, Southern Oaks characteristics). The site's Home of the Hawks footer repeats the St. James Drive address near Port St. Lucie (Southern Oaks website footer).

Two official pages give slightly different start times for Southern Oaks: the district profile prints a 9:40 a.m. start and the bell schedule on the school website prints 9:35 a.m., with 4:00 p.m. dismissal on both

The 9:40 a.m. start is printed in the profile's General Information block (Southern Oaks district profile, hours), and the 9:35 a.m. start appears in the footer of the Southern Oaks site next to the front office's hours of operation, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Southern Oaks website, bell schedule). A family near Port St. Lucie can confirm the current bell with the front office at (772) 785-5640.

The Southern Oaks site also links a free and reduced-price meal application flyer for school year 2026-27, Positive Behavior Intervention Support, the Parental Bill of Rights, FortifyFL suspicious activity reporting and the School Improvement Plan (Southern Oaks Middle website links).

For daily routines, the Southern Oaks menu covers Administration, Teachers and Staff, the Student Handbook, the Dress Code, Registration and the Calendar, and the dress code post notes that Southern Oaks T-shirts can be bought through School Pay (Southern Oaks website, dress code post). Students and parents near Port St. Lucie also find Destiny library search instructions, Family and Student Skyward access and the media center's collection development plan among the site's links.

The Southern Oaks soccer tryout notice requires an athletic packet and a paid $50.00 athletic fee before a student may try out, and the school holds monthly School Advisory Council meetings open to parents and community members.

The Port St. Lucie area school's notice for its soccer tryouts says athletic packets must be submitted and the $50.00 athletic fee paid for a student to be eligible, and a separate post directs families to pay the 2026-27 athletic participation fee through School Pay (Southern Oaks Middle website, athletics posts).

Southern Oaks says on its site that it is required to hold monthly School Advisory Council meetings and invites parents and community members to attend (Southern Oaks website, School Advisory Council). For a middle school, the advisory council statute permits student members, while high school councils must include them (section 1001.452, Florida Statutes).

New Southern Oaks students are placed through the district's Student Assignment office, which runs an online application for the regional zone or another choice option before online registration; the office's number is (772) 429-3930 (Student Assignment page).

Last verified: October 22, 2026, after fresh reads of the Southern Oaks row and middle school scale in the FLDOE file, the Southern Oaks profile, website and NCES entry, Student Assignment, and section 1001.452 of the Florida Statutes, all for this school near Port St. Lucie.