Citrus Elementary School

Yes: Citrus Elementary School, the Vero Beach South agriscience school, moved from a B in 2025 to an A in the 2025-26 state grades, with 62 percent of possible points (row 1734 of the state grades workbook).

Read down the Citrus Elementary row and the 2026 A is the first A since the 2010 column; the years between hold B, C and one D letters (FLDOE workbook, row 1734, grade columns). The workbook's elementary scale starts the A band at 62 percent of points, which is exactly where Citrus landed, while a B covers 54 to 61 percent. No 2020 column exists and the 2021 cell for school 0141 is blank, so neither year appears above.

State law defines the letters that Citrus Elementary in Vero Beach South receives: an A marks a school making excellent progress, a B above average progress and a C satisfactory progress (Florida Statutes section 1008.34).

Science achievement was the strongest Citrus Elementary measure at 75, and mathematics gains for the lowest performing quarter of students was the weakest at 46 (row 1734 of the state grades workbook).

Eight components count toward the Citrus Elementary grade, the full elementary set, and 97 percent of students sat the tests (state workbook, row 1734). That participation rate is above the floor in Florida law, which requires every school to assess at least 95 percent of its eligible students (testing participation rule).

Citrus Elementary carries a YES in the workbook's Title I column, with 78.5 recorded as its share of students counted economically disadvantaged (row 1734 of the state grades workbook). The state's 2024-25 Title I list counts 674 Citrus students ages 5 to 17, of whom 496 come from low-income families, a rate the list prints as 73.59 percent, under a schoolwide program (FLDOE Title I school list, 2024-25).

Citrus Elementary is near Vero Beach rather than in it: the Census geocoder places 2771 4th Street in the Vero Beach South census designated place, GEOID 1274200, and returns no incorporated city (Census geocoder match for 2771 4th Street).

Three official listings give the same building number with three different street names. The school's own website shows 2771 Citrus Road, Vero Beach, FL 32968 (Citrus Elementary School website). The district's 2026-2027 Parent Guide prints 2771 4th Street, Vero Beach, FL 32968 in its school contact table (district family guide, contact table). The federal school search uses 2771 CITRUS PL (federal Common Core of Data listing). All three carry the ZIP code 32968 and the phone number 978-8350.

The Census geocoder matched the 4th Street form as 2771 4TH ST, VERO BEACH, FL, 32968 (Census geocoder). The school's website sits under the School District of Indian River County, which runs the campus (Citrus Elementary School website).

Citrus Elementary teaches kindergarten through grade 5 from 9:00 am to 3:40 pm, and its main number is (772) 978-8350 (Citrus Elementary School website).

The fax line at Citrus Elementary is (772) 978-8351, and the banner calls the campus a School of Agriscience and Community Citizenship (school website). The district family guide lists #MyCES as the school's social media tag (district family guide, contact table). The 2026-27 bell schedule for Indian River County elementary schools starts at 9:00 a.m., dismisses at 3:40 p.m. and ends modified days at 1:50 p.m. (district family guide, bell times).

Citrus Elementary is not on the district's list of full day VPK sites: the Parent Guide names Beachland, Dodgertown, Fellsmere Elementary, Indian River Academy, Pelican Island Classical Magnet, Sebastian and Vero Beach Elementary as its full day VPK sites, and Citrus is not among them (district family guide, VPK sites). Federal figures count 630 Citrus students in kindergarten through grade 5 in 2024-2025 (federal Common Core of Data listing).

Glendale Elementary does not appear in the district's 2026-2027 Parent Guide school contact table, which lists Citrus Elementary at 2771 4th Street (district family guide, contact table).

The district's public school choice openings sheet for 2026-2027, marked updated 06/01/2026, prints a Glendale Elementary (K-5) row with zero openings in every grade (district choice vacancy sheet).

The Parent Guide's enrollment section points families to the Focus Parent Portal for enrollment, and a child must be 5 years old on or before September 1 to enroll in kindergarten (district family guide, enrollment). On the same June 2026 sheet, Citrus Elementary (K-5) also shows zero choice openings in every grade (choice openings sheet).

Yes on both counts: Citrus Elementary is one of five schools on the district's 2026-2027 meals notice where every student eats breakfast at no charge (district no-charge meals notice).

The Extended Day Program lists a Citrus Elementary registration link for care before and after school (district family guide, Extended Day).

The meals notice limits the Citrus Elementary benefit to breakfast; lunch at no charge for all students is listed only at Fellsmere Academy (meals notice). The Parent Guide's Extended Day registration list includes a Citrus Elementary Online Registration link, meant for children new to the program, incoming kindergartners and transfers, with 772-564-4999 as the number to call when unsure (district family guide, Extended Day). Pickup after 6:00 p.m. costs $10.00 per child for every 15 minutes or part of 15 minutes (Extended Day fee chart). Last verified: October 22, 2026, by rereading workbook row 1734, the Citrus homepage, the family guide's contact, bell, VPK and Extended Day pages, the Title I list, the vacancy sheet, the breakfast notice, the federal listing and the geocoder result for 2771 4th Street.