Public Schools in Sebastian, Florida

Eight public school campuses carry a Sebastian 32958 address in the federal school directory, and every one of them belongs to the School District of Indian River County.

The backbone is a neighborhood ladder. Treasure Coast Elementary on 85th Street and Sebastian Elementary teach the early grades, Sebastian River Middle on Fellsmere Road (County Road 512) takes grades 6 to 8, and Sebastian River High on 90th Avenue takes grades 9 to 12 (NCES). The high school and the middle school sit west of the older city grid, which is why NCES files both under Rural, Fringe while Sebastian Elementary is filed under City, Small (NCES).

Four more campuses work differently. Pelican Island Classical Magnet on Schumann Drive is a district magnet with a KG to 6 span in the 2024-2025 data (NCES). Sebastian Charter Junior High on Wave Street is a district-sponsored charter school for grades 6 to 8 (NCES). The Wabasso School on U.S. 1 is classed as a special education school, and the Indian River Virtual Instruction Program used the same U.S. 1 address for its online students (NCES).

The School Board approved a plan in December 2025 for Sebastian Elementary to share the Sebastian River Middle School campus on County Road 512 from August 2026, but as of October 2026 the move is not confirmed and the school still lists 400 Sebastian Blvd.

The vote came at a special meeting in December 2025, when the board approved a districtwide consolidation plan 5-0 (Sebastian Daily). Superintendent David Moore had proposed it in October, citing a decline of about 2,000 students since 2019 (WQCS). Sebastian Daily reported that traditional middle schools across the county were running at roughly half capacity, which is the space the plan meant to use on the County Road 512 campus.

Vero News described the Sebastian Elementary property on June 25, 2026, when the move was still planned, as 41.1 acres at 400 Sebastian Blvd with an assessed value of $4,266,901, one of several district properties listed with a commercial broker (Vero News). The same report listed the Wabasso School grounds at 8895 U.S. 1, 3.61 acres whose main building dates to 1925 and served as the area's first school, and said its special needs students, ages 5 to 22, were moving to the Glendale Elementary campus in Vero Beach. A 1.93 acre parcel at 12870 81st Ave in Sebastian was on the same list.

High school changed too. With the Vero Beach High freshman center closed, CBS12 reported on Aug. 10, 2026 that all incoming ninth graders attend either Sebastian River High School or Vero Beach High School (CBS12). Sebastian River High already kept grades 9 to 12 on its 90th Avenue campus.

The record since August does not show the Sebastian Elementary move happening. Sebastian Daily's Aug. 9, 2026 list of campuses that changed over the summer names Vero Beach High, Oslo Middle, Osceola Magnet, Rosewood Magnet and Glendale Elementary, but not Sebastian Elementary (Sebastian Daily). The school's own site still gives 400 Sebastian Blvd in its footer and places its Oct. 19, 2026 School Advisory Council meeting there (Sebastian Elementary), the Sebastian River Middle site lists only grades 6 to 8, and the Florida Department of Education Master School ID entry still showed 400 Sebastian Blvd on Oct. 11, 2026.

Yes: in the 2026-2027 school year the Indian River County district lets parents enroll children at schools across the county, and two Sebastian campuses, Pelican Island Classical Magnet and Sebastian Charter Junior High, fill seats by application.

CBS12 reported in August 2026 that Indian River County families are no longer limited to the neighborhood school assigned to their address, that several campuses have become K-8 schools, and that the district operates five charter schools (CBS12). The zoned school still matters for transportation and for sports.

Pelican Island Classical Magnet is the clearest example of choice inside Sebastian. When the School Board approved converting Pelican Island Elementary in December 2024, students already zoned there got first option to stay, and new kindergarten seats were to be filled by application and, if needed, a lottery (TCPalm). The school adds a grade each year until it is K-8 by the 2028-2029 school year. Its middle grades have no teams, gym or field, so a Pelican Island student who wants to play goes to the zoned neighborhood school for athletics.

At the time of that vote Pelican Island had 352 students in a building with capacity for 654, about half full, according to district documents reported by TCPalm. NCES counted 354 students on the Schumann Drive campus in 2024-2025 (NCES). Sebastian Charter Junior High on Wave Street runs its own admission lottery as a charter school, covered on its own page.

Sebastian River High School is by far the largest public school in Sebastian, with 1,777 students and 77 classroom teachers in 2024-2025, more students than the three Sebastian elementary campuses combined.

The federal count puts Sebastian River High at 452 ninth graders, 443 tenth graders, 449 eleventh graders and 433 seniors, with a student to teacher ratio of 23.08 (NCES). Sebastian River Middle enrolled 218 sixth graders, 259 seventh graders and 298 eighth graders, a smaller incoming class than the one leaving for high school (NCES).

Treasure Coast Elementary on 85th Street is the largest elementary on the Sebastian side, with 679 students in kindergarten through grade 5 (NCES). Sebastian Elementary was the smallest zoned campus at 312 students in PK to 5 (NCES), the smallest of the Sebastian campuses the December 2025 plan proposed to relocate.

Every graded public school in Sebastian earned an A in Florida's 2026 school grades, and the Indian River County district earned its fourth consecutive A.

WQCS reported on July 2, 2026 that 23 of the district's 24 traditional public schools earned an A, and that Pelican Island Classical Magnet moved up from a B (WQCS). The Florida Department of Education's 2026 school grades file lists A grades for Sebastian Elementary, Treasure Coast Elementary, Pelican Island Classical Magnet, Sebastian River Middle, Sebastian Charter Junior High and Sebastian River High. The Wabasso School and the virtual program are not graded on that list. Year-by-year grades and points for each Sebastian campus are covered on the school grades page.

The state file also marks which Sebastian campuses receive federal Title I money for schools with many low-income students. Sebastian Elementary, Treasure Coast Elementary, Pelican Island Classical Magnet and Sebastian River Middle are flagged Title I in the 2026 file, while Sebastian River High and Sebastian Charter Junior High are not. The meal counts in the NCES table point the same way: at Sebastian Elementary 199 of 312 students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-2025.

Sebastian's public schools answer to the elected School Board of Indian River County and to Superintendent David Moore, who plans to step down at the end of June 2027.

WQCS reported on Aug. 28, 2026 that Moore had led the district for nearly seven years and that Board Chair Teri Barenborg wanted the next superintendent to overlap with him before he leaves (WQCS). The board's December 2025 consolidation vote, which approved the Sebastian Elementary relocation plan, was unanimous, with Peggy Jones as vice chair (Sebastian Daily).

Three Sebastian campuses opened the 2026-2027 year under new principals. Robert Riskin moved from Sebastian River Middle to lead Sebastian River High on June 1, 2026; Joy Griffin, previously an assistant principal at Vero Beach High, took over Sebastian River Middle; and Joanna Roux became principal of Treasure Coast Elementary (Sebastian Daily). Last verified: October 11, 2026, on the NCES and Florida Department of Education websites and in the reports cited above.