Vero Beach Middle School

Yes: the Indian River County shelter register carries 1507 19th Street under the name Vero Beach Middle School, with a parenthetical naming its former use, V.B.H.S Freshman Learning Center (Indian River County public shelters layer).

A School District of Indian River County campus for grades 6 to 8, Vero Beach Middle School puts its office at 1507 19th Street, Vero Beach, FL 32960, on its website, along with a main line of (772) 564-3980 and a fax line of (772) 564-4029 (Vero Beach Middle School website). The district Parent Guide for 2026-2027 lists the school with the hashtag #MyVBMS and grades 6th to 8th (SDIRC 2026-2027 Parent Guide, page 15).

Vero Beach Middle School sits within Vero Beach city limits, according to the Census geocoder, which matches 1507 19th Street to Vero Beach city, GEOID 1274150 (Census geocoder result for 1507 19th Street).

Official records disagree on the street address. The school website gives 1507 19th Street (Vero Beach Middle School website), and so does the county shelter register (Indian River County public shelters layer). The district's 2026-2027 Parent Guide prints 1707 16th Street, Vero Beach, FL 32960 for Vero Beach Middle, the same street address it gives Vero Beach High School and IR Prep (SDIRC 2026-2027 Parent Guide, page 15). The geocoder also places 1707 16th Street in Vero Beach city, so both addresses fall inside city limits (Census geocoder result for 1707 16th Street).

A third record adds to the mix. The federal school search, whose 2025-2026 directory entries NCES marks as preliminary, has no Vero Beach Middle School line and lists IR Prep, a district school for grades 5 to 12 with 62 students, at 1507 19th Street in Vero Beach (NCES school list, Indian River district, page 1).

The Vero Beach Middle School day starts at 8:10 am and ends at 2:51 pm for grades 6 to 8 (Vero Beach Middle School website).

The Vero Beach Middle times follow the district schedule for every middle and K-8 school in Indian River County (SDIRC 2026-2027 Parent Guide, page 13). On February 23, 2026, the board gave unanimous approval to the middle and K-8 schedule with its 8:10 a.m. start and 2:51 p.m. dismissal, after two rounds of stakeholder feedback plus transportation modeling and operational analysis; Wabasso School and IR Prep stay on independent schedules. The district counted 261 very supportive and 171 supportive family responses, and 121 very supportive and 72 supportive staff responses (SDIRC article, February 25, 2026).

Vero Beach Middle School advertises three paths: Academics and Athletics, Entrepreneurship, and a STEAM Academy, under the line Where tradition meets innovation (Vero Beach Middle School website).

The Vero Beach Middle site menu carries pages for Guidance and Athletics beside Families, Dining and Transportation (Vero Beach Middle School website). Separately, state law says every Florida middle grades student must complete one course in career and education planning in grade 6, 7 or 8, and the personalized academic and career plan it produces must emphasize entrepreneurship and employability skills (Florida Statutes section 1003.4156).

Students at Vero Beach Middle can also earn high school credit early. Florida requires each school with middle grades to offer at least one high school level mathematics course, and a middle grades student earns high school credit for Algebra I only by taking the statewide Algebra I end-of-course exam, which counts for 30 percent of the final course grade, and passing the course (Florida Statutes section 1003.4156). Those exams also matter to the state grading formula, which for schools of grades 6 through 8 includes the percentage of eligible students who pass high school level statewide end-of-course assessments or attain national industry certifications on the CAPE list (Florida Statutes section 1008.34).

Florida law requires three middle grades or higher courses each in English Language Arts, mathematics, social studies and science, plus one career and education planning course, before a Vero Beach Middle student is promoted to high school (Florida Statutes section 1003.4156).

One of the three social studies courses must be at least a one-semester civics education course covering federal, state and local government and documents such as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and the statewide civics end-of-course exam counts for 30 percent of the final course grade (Florida Statutes section 1003.4156). A Biology I course taken in middle school earns high school credit only when the student takes the statewide Biology I exam, again worth 30 percent of the course grade, and passes the course, and a Geometry course follows the same rule with its own exam worth 30 percent (section 1003.4156). Vero Beach High School, listed for grades 9 to 12, is at 1707 16th Street, Vero Beach, FL 32960, with the number 564-5600 (SDIRC 2026-2027 Parent Guide, page 15).

For a transfer into Vero Beach Middle from outside the district, the Parent Guide asks for the most recent report card or state test results and, where the student has one, the IEP, 504 plan, ELL plan or gifted EP, on top of the standard enrollment documents; the application itself runs through the Focus Parent Portal (SDIRC 2026-2027 Parent Guide, page 23). The guide warns that a student is excluded from school when records are still missing on the 30th school day following a transfer into Indian River County, or when immunizations are out of date or physicals have expired (Parent Guide enrollment notes).

For 2026-2027, a full price lunch at Vero Beach Middle and the other Indian River County middle schools costs $3.25 and a full price breakfast $2.00 (SDIRC 2026-2027 Parent Guide, Meal Cost, page 72).

The same Indian River County price list charges elementary students $3.00 for a full price lunch, and the guide says district cafeterias do not serve fried foods (Parent Guide, Food and Nutrition Services). Vero Beach Middle is one of three middle schools the district counts, beside eight elementary schools, four K-8 schools and two high schools (Parent Guide, district overview, page 7). The guide's contact table lists the other two as Gifford Middle School at 4530 28th Court, Vero Beach, and Sebastian River Middle School at 9400 CR 512, Sebastian, both for grades 6 to 8 (Parent Guide, page 15).

Yes: the county shelter layer lists the 1507 19th Street campus as a pet friendly shelter in the central county area.

It opens in wave 1 with a listed capacity of 1,499, and its note describes it as serving both the general population and pets (Indian River County public shelters layer).

That Vero Beach Middle note also warns that space is limited, that entry is first come, first serve, and that the site is a shelter of last resort, and it sends questions to (772) 226-3900 (Indian River County public shelters layer). Last verified: October 22, 2026, with the Vero Beach Middle homepage, both geocoder matches, the Parent Guide contact table and bell schedule, the NCES list, the two statutes and the shelter entry each pulled up fresh that day.