Vero Beach Elementary School

In the 2025-26 Florida school grades, Vero Beach Elementary School received an A on 65 percent of possible points, matching the letter it got in 2025 (state school grades file, row 1736).

The workbook is dated as of September 1, 2026, and lists Vero Beach Elementary as number 0161 in district 31, Indian River (state school grades file, row 1736). Its note sets the elementary scale: an A takes 62 percent of points or greater, a B takes 54 to 61 percent, and a C takes 41 to 53 percent (scale note atop the state grades file). The 2023 letter carries the label informational baseline grade, the file has no 2020 column, and the 2021 cell for this school is blank, so the table skips those years rather than filling them in.

Earlier letters on the same Vero Beach Elementary row are lower: it shows an F in 2016, a D in 2018 and C grades in 2017, 2019, 2022 and 2023 (state school grades file, row 1736). Under state law an A stands for excellent progress and an F for a school failing to make adequate progress (section 1008.34 of the Florida Statutes).

Vero Beach Elementary's highest components were grade 3 English Language Arts and mathematics achievement, both at 72, and its lowest was mathematics learning gains of the lowest 25 percent at 54 (state school grades file, row 1736).

The row counts eight components for Vero Beach Elementary, with no social studies or acceleration measure, and records 97 percent of students tested (state school grades file, row 1736). State law sets a floor of 95 percent of eligible students assessed at each school, with an exception for alternative schools (Florida Statutes section 1008.34).

The same row flags Vero Beach Elementary as a Title I school and not a charter, and lists 83.6 as its percent of economically disadvantaged students (state school grades file, row 1736). The state's separate Title I school list prints program type SW for the school and counts 460 children from low-income families among 562 students ages 5 to 17, or 81.85 percent (FLDOE Title I school list). The two percentages come from different files that use different definitions.

Vero Beach Elementary sits near Vero Beach rather than inside it: the Census geocoder matches 1770 12th Street to Vero Beach South CDP, GEOID 1274200, and returns no incorporated city for the address (Census geocoder result for 1770 12th Street).

Every official listing agrees on the street address and phone. The school website gives 1770 12th Street, Vero Beach, FL 32960, with a main line of (772) 564-4550 (Vero Beach Elementary School website). The district's 2026-2027 Parent Guide lists the same address and 564-4550 in its school contact table (SDIRC 2026-2027 Parent Guide, page 15), and the federal school search prints 1770 12TH ST with (772) 564-4550 (NCES school list, Indian River district, page 2).

The Vero Beach mailing city is the source of the confusion: the geocoder reads the ZIP as 32960 and the city line as VERO BEACH, yet the place it returns is the census designated place, not Vero Beach city (Census geocoder). The school belongs to the countywide School District of Indian River County either way (school website). Other district campuses with Vero Beach mailing addresses are covered in the Vero Beach public schools guide.

Classes run from 9:00 am to 3:40 pm for prekindergarten through grade 5 (Vero Beach Elementary School website).

Those Vero Beach Elementary times match the district schedule for every Indian River County elementary school in 2026-27: start 9:00 a.m., dismissal 3:40 p.m., and modified days that end at 1:50 p.m. (SDIRC 2026-2027 Parent Guide, page 13). Board members voted unanimously for that bell schedule on February 23, 2026 (district news item dated February 25, 2026). Middle schools start earlier, at 8:10 a.m., and high schools at 7:20 a.m., which matters for a household with children at two levels (Parent Guide school schedules).

Federal data put Vero Beach Elementary at 593 students in prekindergarten through grade 5 for the 2024-25 year; NCES labels its 2025-2026 name, address and phone data preliminary and takes membership from 2024-2025 (NCES school list, page 2). The workbook marks the school type as 01, elementary (state school grades file, row 1736).

Enrollment at Vero Beach Elementary runs through the district's online application in the Focus Parent Portal, which the Parent Guide says is always available (SDIRC 2026-2027 Parent Guide, page 23).

Kindergarten entry at Vero Beach Elementary, as at every Indian River County school, needs a fifth birthday on or before September 1; a first grader new to the district needs a sixth birthday by that date plus proof of finishing a kindergarten program (Parent Guide enrollment requirements). Families bring proof of birth such as a birth certificate, a driver license or another photo ID, a school physical done within one year of the school start date, a Certificate of Immunization on DOH form 680, emergency contacts, and proof of residence made up of a lease or mortgage with two current utility bills in the family's name. The Social Security number is optional (Parent Guide enrollment requirements).

In Indian River County, School Choice is the route to a campus other than the zoned one: the application window runs from November 1 each year until the close of June and covers the following school year, each student may list up to three choice schools, and once the lottery runs parents have ten days to take or turn down an offer (Parent Guide, School Choice).

Yes: the district's Extended Day Program lists Vero Beach Elementary among its registration sites, with mornings from 7:00 until 8:30 a.m. and afternoons from 3:40 until 6:00 p.m. (SDIRC 2026-2027 Parent Guide, page 45).

At Vero Beach Elementary and the other sites, the program is open on regular school days to students in kindergarten through grade 5, and the guide asks families to use the online link only for a child new to Extended Day, an incoming kindergartner or a transfer, and asks anyone unsure to call 772-564-4999 before registering (Parent Guide, Extended Day Program). School district employees who qualify pay a lower schedule, and a late payment adds $10.00 per child per week (Parent Guide, Extended Day costs). The same registration list also names Beachland, Citrus, Dodgertown, Fellsmere and Sebastian elementary schools, among others, with one program phone line for all of them (Parent Guide, Extended Day registration list).

Yes: the Indian River County public shelter layer lists Vero Beach Elementary School at 1770 12th Street as a shelter in the central county area, opening in wave 2, with a capacity of 2,093 (Indian River County public shelters layer).

The county layer stores that wave in a field named OPEN_ORDER, next to the CENTRAL COUNTY area code and the SHELTER function (Indian River County public shelters layer). District wide, the July 1, 2026, release counts A grades at 23 of 24 traditional public schools and at every charter school (SDIRC release, July 1, 2026). Last verified: October 22, 2026, by reopening workbook row 1736 and its scale note, the school homepage, the Parent Guide tables, the NCES list, the Title I file and the county shelter layer for this campus.