Mosaic Digital Academy, St. Lucie County

Mosaic Digital Academy is the St. Lucie Public Schools virtual school for kindergarten through grade 12, a tuition-free public option run by the district from an office in Fort Pierce.

The district profile describes Mosaic as a high-quality, tuition-free public virtual education option for grades K-12 across St. Lucie, Martin and surrounding counties, with school clubs, in-person field experiences across the tri-county area and monthly student-centered live days on campus (Mosaic Digital Academy district profile). The Mosaic website adds that the academy is a public school within the St. Lucie Public School System and that its students are bound by all public-school policies the Florida Department of Education requires (Mosaic Digital Academy website).

Each row above comes from the Mosaic profile on the St. Lucie district site (Mosaic profile, general information). Its zone reads Countywide.

Mosaic's office shares the Gaines Academy campus on South Jenkins Road, an address the Census Bureau places inside the City of Fort Pierce.

According to the Mosaic website, the school is located on the Samuel Gaines Academy campus, 2250 S. Jenkins Road, Fort Pierce, FL 34947 (Mosaic website, location). The district profile for the Gaines K-8 magnet lists the same 2250 S. Jenkins Road address with its own phone, (772) 462-8888, and a Green zone assignment (Samuel S. Gaines Academy profile), while the Mosaic line is (772) 429-5504.

The Census Bureau geocoder matches 2250 S JENKINS RD, FORT PIERCE, FL, 34947 to Fort Pierce city, GEOID 1224300 (Census Bureau address match). On that match, the Mosaic campus sits inside Fort Pierce city limits.

Mosaic takes St. Lucie and Martin county residents in kindergarten through grade 12, enrollment opens at the start of each semester, and proof of residency is required for every enrollment.

In the St. Lucie school directory, Mosaic is a self-selecting, student-parent choice program open to K-12 students with a primary residence in St. Lucie or Martin county (St. Lucie school directory, virtual schools). The district profile phrases the reach more widely, as St. Lucie, Martin and surrounding counties (Mosaic district profile), so families outside those two counties confirm eligibility with the school first. The same profile states that enrollment is open at the start of each semester.

The directory says the program offers part-time and full-time virtual school for grades 6-12 and full-time virtual school for grades K-5, taught by local instructors who meet Florida Department of Education certification requirements (school directory, Mosaic description). For other St. Lucie school choice questions, the directory gives the Student Assignment line, (772) 429-3930.

The Mosaic website sets out what enrollment commits a family to: it is not a home education program, proof of residency is required for all enrollments, all public virtual school students sit State Testing on campus, and students attend live days, class time sessions, interventions and catch-up days on campus when applicable (Mosaic website, requirements).

Mosaic Digital Academy K-12 holds an A for 2026 in the state grades file, at 73 percent of total possible points, with an A in the 2025 and 2024 columns as well.

The state workbook (2025-26 School Grades, as of September 1, 2026) carries MOSAIC DIGITAL ACADEMY K-12 as school 7023 in the St. Lucie district, number 56, with school type 04, the file's code for a combination school (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades file). For high and combination schools the file's scale gives an A at 65 percent of points or greater. Its Charter School and Title I cells both read NO, shows 16.8 under Percent of Economically Disadvantaged Students, and leaves the 2023 informational baseline column empty.

Each value sits under the workbook's own column heading for school 7023 (FLDOE school grades workbook). The Grade 3 English Language Arts column is blank for Mosaic. Under Academics, the district profile links Mosaic's own testing results and improvement plan pages (Mosaic profile, academics links).

Two St. Lucie Public Schools pages give different start years: the district directory says 2009, and the Mosaic website says 2012.

The district school directory states that the virtual instruction program was established in 2009 in accordance with Florida Statute 1002.45, to provide full-time instruction in an online environment (St. Lucie school directory, Mosaic history). The Mosaic website opens its mission statement with the words Since 2012 (Mosaic website, mission).

Mosaic students learn online from home with live class time on Microsoft Teams and come to the Fort Pierce campus for monthly Live Days, testing and some support sessions.

The Mosaic website describes Live Class Time sessions via Microsoft Teams for regular contact with teachers and classmates, and monthly school events that include in-person Live Days, community meetups, virtual assemblies and student celebrations (Mosaic website, how classes work). It lists tutoring, clubs, recognition ceremonies and leadership opportunities, and for high school students it names Dual Enrollment and AICE Cambridge programs as advanced pathways. The site posts class time schedules by grade band and Semester 1 and Semester 2 event calendars, each labeled as an example. Its Resources area links the FLDOE Uniform Assessment Calendar, the Destiny library collection and the state parental rights page, and the staff list on the same page splits school counseling between grades K-8 and grades 9-12.

One wording difference sits between the two district sources: the Mosaic website calls the school a full-time K-12 online public school, while the St. Lucie directory also describes part-time virtual options for grades 6-12 (school directory, part-time and full-time options; Mosaic website, introduction). The website menu lists a Full Time Enrollment page, so a family weighing part-time courses in Port St. Lucie or Fort Pierce asks Mosaic at (772) 429-5504 which option is open that semester.

Section 1002.45 of the Florida Statutes lets a district such as St. Lucie run its own part-time or full-time K-12 virtual instruction program and sets attendance, testing and equipment rules for it.

Among the options the statute gives each district is to establish school district operated part-time or full-time kindergarten through grade 12 virtual instruction programs, which is the basis the St. Lucie directory cites for Mosaic (Florida Statutes 1002.45). Every student in such a program must comply with the compulsory attendance requirements of section 1003.21, with attendance verified by the district, and must take statewide assessments. Section 1003.21 in turn requires school attendance for children who are 6, or will be 6 by February 1 of the school year, and have not yet turned 16 (Florida Statutes 1003.21), the same rule that applies to St. Lucie students in brick-and-mortar schools.

The statute also requires each virtual instruction program to provide all necessary instructional materials, and to give each full-time virtual student who qualifies for free or reduced-price school lunch, or is on the direct certification list, and who has no computer or Internet access at home, the equipment and Internet access the program needs (Florida Statutes 1002.45, student participation and equipment). At the beginning of each school year every Florida district, St. Lucie included, must notify parents and students of the right to take part in a virtual instruction program and in Florida Virtual School courses. Last verified: October 22, 2026, against the Mosaic profile and website, the St. Lucie school directory, the Gaines Academy profile, the FLDOE grades workbook entry for school 7023, the Census address match and Florida Statutes 1002.45 and 1003.21.