Vero Beach High School, Vero Beach

Vero Beach High School earned an A in the 2025-26 Florida school grades, matching the A grades in its 2025 and 2024 columns.

In the state workbook, school 0031 in district 31, Indian River, appears as VERO BEACH HIGH SCHOOL with 650 total points across 10 components (Florida school grades workbook, 2025-26). Its Percent of Total Possible Points cell reads 65, and its Percent Tested cell reads 96.

The workbook prints the high school scale beside the data: an A for 65% of points or greater, a B for 60% to 64%, a C for 45% to 59%, a D for 35% to 44% and an F for 34% or less (Florida school grades workbook, 2025-26). The Vero Beach High value of 65 meets the printed A threshold of 65% of points.

Earlier columns on the Vero Beach High row show a mix of grades. The 2023 informational baseline reads B and 2022 reads C; the 2021 cell is empty; 2019 and 2018 read B, 2017 and 2016 read C, and the 2015 informational baseline reads A (Florida school grades workbook, 2025-26). Going further back, the row shows A for 2012 and a D in its oldest column, 1999.

The School District of Indian River County, which runs Vero Beach High, reported its fourth consecutive A district grade on July 1, 2026, with 23 of its 24 traditional public schools earning an A (district school grades release). The district Parent Guide adds that all of its high schools earned an A rating (SDIRC 2026-2027 Parent Guide).

Graduation rate at 98 and college and career acceleration at 87 are the top Vero Beach High components, while the three mathematics columns read 41 to 46 and sit lowest.

Each value below is copied from the Vero Beach High row under the workbook's own column names (Florida school grades workbook, 2025-26).

Science Achievement at 80 and Social Studies Achievement at 81 are the strongest of the test based columns on the Vero Beach High row (Florida school grades workbook, 2025-26). The graduation and acceleration columns carry a 2024-25 label in the workbook header.

Florida law explains those two extra columns on the Vero Beach High row. For a school of grades 9 through 12, section 1008.34 adds the 4-year graduation rate and the percentage of students eligible to earn college and career credit through Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, dual enrollment and similar options, each worth 100 points (section 1008.34, Florida Statutes).

The Vero Beach High row also records NO for Charter School, NO for Title I, school type 03, which the legend calls High, and 56.7 for Percent of Economically Disadvantaged Students (Florida school grades workbook, 2025-26).

Yes, the Census Bureau address lookup places the 1707 16th Street campus inside the City of Vero Beach.

The lookup matched 1707 16TH ST, VERO BEACH, FL, 32960 and returned Vero Beach city, GEOID 1274150, from its incorporated places layer (Census Bureau address lookup for 1707 16th Street).

The school website footer gives 1707 16th Street, Vero Beach, FL 32960, a main number of (772) 564-5600 and a fax number of (772) 564-5553 (Vero Beach High School website). The district Parent Guide lists the same street address and 564-5600 for grades 9th to 12th, under the tag #MyVBHS, on page 15 (SDIRC 2026-2027 Parent Guide).

The federal school list prints a different line: vero beach high school, 1707 16TH ST, with the phone (772) 564-5800 (NCES school list, Indian River district, page 2). NCES marks its name, address and phone fields as preliminary 2025-2026 submissions, while the school and district print 564-5600.

The Parent Guide also prints 1707 16th Street for Vero Beach Middle School on the same page (SDIRC 2026-2027 Parent Guide), a record conflict covered in the Vero Beach Middle School guide.

Classes at Vero Beach High meet from 7:20 am to 2:07 pm, and the federal school list gives a 2024-2025 membership of 2,645 for the 9 to 12 campus.

The Parent Guide schedule table applies one high school bell across Indian River County: start 7:20 a.m., dismissal 2:07 p.m., and modified days from 7:20 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. (SDIRC 2026-2027 Parent Guide).

A news post on the Vero Beach High site says the School Board unanimously approved the 2026-2027 start and dismissal times on Monday, February 23, 2026, setting the high school day at 7:20 AM to 2:07 PM; the post credits feedback gathered from stakeholders in two phases, plus modeling of bus routes and a review of operations (Vero Beach High news post on 2026-2027 bell times).

NCES labels its Vero Beach High student count as official 2024-2025 data and its directory fields as preliminary 2025-2026 data (NCES school list, Indian River district, page 2). The 2,645 figure is therefore a size for the 2024-2025 year, not a current enrollment.

Vero Beach High describes itself on its home page as an Advanced Placement and STEAM school, and its state grade includes a college and career acceleration value of 87.

The full home page line reads "An Advanced Placement and STEAM School", followed by a motto built on the VBHS initials (Vero Beach High School website). The site menu links Guidance, Athletics, Families, Dining and Transportation pages for course and schedule questions.

For Vero Beach High students, section 1007.27 matters because Florida treats the College Board Advanced Placement Program as one of its articulated acceleration mechanisms, alongside dual enrollment, early admission, credit by examination, International Baccalaureate and the Advanced International Certificate of Education (section 1007.27, Florida Statutes). The Department of Education publishes the minimum scores, maximum credit and matching courses for each examination each year.

The same statute requires each Florida College System institution and state university to award credit for specific courses when a student passes one of those examinations, unless the credit duplicates credit already awarded (section 1007.27, Florida Statutes). For a Vero Beach High student, an AP score at or above the state minimum can count at a public Florida college or university.

Yes, district high school students can take college courses co-sponsored with Indian River State College, and juniors and seniors can apply for career dual enrollment at Treasure Coast Technical College.

Page 29 of the Parent Guide says the School District of Indian River County and Indian River State College co-sponsor college courses in high schools during normal class hours, after hours and during the summer term, and that students earn both high school and college credit when they complete them satisfactorily (SDIRC 2026-2027 Parent Guide). An eligible student may also enroll full time at any Florida college or university with which the district has an articulation agreement, once that institution accepts the student.

The same page describes the Treasure Coast Technical College program: juniors and seniors may take postsecondary clock hour courses that count toward both graduation and a career certificate, after a formal application, with tuition, books and lab industry certification fees waived (SDIRC 2026-2027 Parent Guide). Career and technical education runs from grades 6 to 12, and every CTE program offers a chance to earn a recognized industry certification.

A Career Pathways articulation agreement between Indian River State College and the School Board of Indian River County lets students who finish a secondary CTE program receive articulated credits when they first register at the college (SDIRC 2026-2027 Parent Guide).

A Vero Beach High student needs 24 credits, an International Baccalaureate curriculum or an Advanced International Certificate of Education curriculum for a standard Florida diploma.

Section 1003.4282 sets that rule for every Vero Beach student who entered grade 9 in the 2013-2014 school year or later, and allows the credits to be earned through equivalent, applied, integrated or career education courses (section 1003.4282, Florida Statutes). A student who earns the credits but fails the required assessments or misses a 2.0 GPA may stay in high school for up to 1 additional year of special instruction.

The Vero Beach High graduation rate column for 2024-25 reads 98 in the state workbook (Florida school grades workbook, 2025-26). Section 1008.34 makes that rate one of the high school grade components.

The Vero Beach schools hub lists the other public, charter and independent options in the city, and the Fighting Indians guide covers the athletics program. Last verified: October 22, 2026, by reopening row 1727 of the state grades workbook, the Vero Beach High home page and bell times post, the Parent Guide pages 13, 15 and 29, the NCES district list, the Census address match, the July district release and sections 1003.4282, 1007.27 and 1008.34.