Southport Middle School, Port St. Lucie

Southport Middle School earned an A in the 2025-26 Florida school grades, matching the A recorded for it in the 2025 column.

The state workbook, dated as of September 1, 2026, lists Southport as school 0331 in district 56, St. Lucie, with 621 total points earned, 9 total components, 69 in the percent of total possible points column and 97 in the percent tested column (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades workbook). The same row marks Southport as a Title I school that is not a charter school, gives it school type 02, which the workbook legend defines as Middle, and records 67.4 in the percent of economically disadvantaged students column.

For middle schools the workbook prints its own scale: A for 64% of points or greater, B for 57% to 63%, C for 44% to 56%, D for 34% to 43% and F for 33% of points or less (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades workbook). Southport's 69 sits in the A band of that printed scale.

The earlier grade columns in the Southport row read B for 2024, C for the 2023 informational baseline, B for 2022 and B for 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016 (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades workbook). The 2021 column is empty for Southport, and the workbook carries no column for 2020.

The Southport row reads 62 for English Language Arts Achievement, 72 for Mathematics Achievement, 54 for Science Achievement and 82 for Social Studies Achievement.

Every number in the table below is copied from the Southport row of the state workbook; the column labels are the workbook's own (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades workbook).

The Grade 3 English Language Arts, graduation rate and college and career acceleration columns are blank for Southport, and the Total Components column in the same row reads 9 (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades workbook). The district profile links a School Grade and Testing Results page and the school improvement plan for families who want subject detail beyond these totals (district profile for Southport Middle).

Southport Middle School sits at 2420 SE Morningside Blvd., Port St. Lucie, FL 34952, and the Census Bureau geocoder places that address inside Port St. Lucie city limits.

The district profile gives the address as 2420 SE Morningside Blvd., Port St. Lucie, FL 34952, with phone (772) 337-5900 and fax (772) 337-5903 (district profile for Southport Middle). The geocoder, queried with the Incorporated Places layer, returns Port St. Lucie city, GEOID 1258715, for the address; its matched line spells the street as MORNINGSIDE BLCD (Census Bureau geocoder result).

The school website writes the city as Port Saint Lucie in its header and footer, while the district profile uses Port St. Lucie; both refer to the same 34952 address (Southport Middle School website). The NCES public school search lists the campus as southport middle school, 2420 SE MORNINGSIDE BLVD, PORT ST LUCIE, FL 34952 (NCES public school search for Port St. Lucie).

Southport is a Blue zone campus in school Board District 2, according to the district profile (district profile for Southport Middle). The Student Assignment office describes the Blue Zone as the area south of Midway Road and east of Florida's Turnpike (Student Assignment office page). The school site also links a map of the school campus among its family links (Southport Middle School website).

The district profile lists Southport's hours as 9:40 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., while the school website lists class hours of 9:35 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and office hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.

The two official pages give different start times for the school day: the district profile says 9:40 a.m. (district profile for Southport Middle), and the footer of the school site says class hours run from 9:35am to 4:00pm, with hours of operation from 8:00am to 4:45pm (Southport Middle School website). A family planning a first morning drop off can confirm the current bell with the front office at (772) 337-5900 (district profile for Southport Middle).

The pages also differ on the mascot. The district profile lists the mascot as Hurricane and the colors as black and teal (district profile for Southport Middle). The school site calls Southport the Home of the Hurricanes, yet its footer names the mascot as Ivan the Ibis, with black and teal colors (Southport Middle School website).

The school site posts a lunch price of $2.75 a day, extra entree items at $2.50 and cookies at .75 cents, and it asks every family to complete the meal application (Southport Middle School website).

The NCES search lists 872 students in grades 6 to 8 at Southport for the 2024-2025 school year, and the district profile lists a capacity of 1200.

Per the NCES page notes, the membership counts are the official 2024-2025 school level figures, while the name, address and phone fields are preliminary 2025-2026 submissions (NCES public school search for Port St. Lucie). Southport's profile prints a capacity of 1200 beside grades 6-8 (district profile for Southport Middle).

Middle school seats such as Southport's are filled through the district's three regional zones rather than neighborhood boundaries, with preference for families that have a sibling already at the school or live within two miles of it (Student Assignment office page). Applications and questions go to the Student Assignment office at (772) 429-3930, which says its staff can help in French, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Italian, Portuguese and English (Student Assignment office page).

Florida law lists the courses a Southport eighth grader must complete before promotion to high school, among them three middle grades courses each in English Language Arts, mathematics and social studies, one of which must be a civics education course lasting a semester or more.

Section 1003.4156 sets these promotion requirements for any school that includes grades 6, 7 and 8, which covers Southport's grades 6 to 8 (section 1003.4156, Florida Statutes). The same section obliges each school with middle grades to make available a minimum of one high school level mathematics course that carries high school credit, and it states that a student's score on the statewide civics end-of-course assessment counts for 30 percent of the final civics course grade (section 1003.4156, Florida Statutes).

The Southport row of the state workbook shows 86 in its Middle School Acceleration column (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades workbook). The Southport site lists a middle school grading policy, an academic honesty policy and the uniform grading system among its posted policies (Southport Middle School website).

Southport's own About Us page lists band and drama programs, a schoolwide behavior system and partnerships with the Morningside Library and the Children's Services Council of St. Lucie County.

The page says the drama department produces two musicals each year and that the school is a member of the Florida Bandmasters Association, taking part in the FBA Solo and Ensemble Festival, the IRSC Four County Honor Band and the St. Lucie County Honor Band (About Us page of the Southport site). It lists Five Star School and Gold School Award recognitions and PBIS Model School Gold status for 2014-2015 through 2017-2018, followed by Bronze for 2018-2019 (About Us page of the Southport site).

The same page says teams of teachers plan together for an interdisciplinary approach, run an advisor and advisee program, and use CHAMPS in every classroom (About Us page of the Southport site). The partnership with the Children's Services Council is described as support for parent workshops (About Us page of the Southport site).

The curriculum paragraph on the same page frames the middle school program as support for two transitions, from elementary to middle grades and from middle grades to high school, and it names the social and academic needs of the middle school child as the focus (About Us page of the Southport site). For day to day logistics, the Southport home page links the 2026-2027 district school calendar, the 2026-2027 parent and student handbook, the student dress code, a supply list, the school lunch menu, Skyward Family Access and the transportation page (Southport Middle School website). It also posts the school improvement plan and a parent family engagement plan for 2026-2027, the two documents a family can read for the school's own goals for the year (Southport Middle School website).

The Port St. Lucie schools hub lists Southport beside the other district campuses in the city. Last verified: October 22, 2026, after Southport's row in the FLDOE workbook, its district profile, the school's home and About Us pages, the Port St. Lucie NCES listing, a repeat Census geocoder lookup, the Student Assignment rules and section 1003.4156 were all pulled fresh.