School grades in Sebastian, Florida

All six graded public schools in Sebastian earned an A in the Florida school grades released July 1, 2026.

Every public school with a Sebastian address earned an A when the Florida Department of Education released 2025-2026 school grades on July 1, 2026. The state's School Grades spreadsheet, updated in September 2026, lists six graded campuses in and around the city: Sebastian Elementary, Treasure Coast Elementary, Pelican Island Classical Magnet, Sebastian River Middle, Sebastian Charter Junior High and Sebastian River High. The Wabasso School on U.S. 1, a special education center, is not part of that letter-grade list.

The 2026 sweep is new for the north end of Indian River County. Four years earlier, Sebastian River Middle and Sebastian River High both carried a C, and Sebastian Elementary and Treasure Coast Elementary had only just climbed to B. The district as a whole earned its fourth consecutive A, and WQCS reported that 23 of the District's 24 traditional public schools earned an A, the third-highest share of A-rated traditional schools in Florida.

Sebastian Charter Junior High scored highest in 2026 with 81 percent of possible points, and Sebastian Elementary posted the lowest A among the six at 66 percent.

The 2023 column is the state's informational baseline year after the switch to FAST testing, and all values come from the FLDOE 2026 School Grades file for the six Sebastian campuses.

A letter grade sits on a percentage of possible points, and the FLDOE file shows how far above the line each Sebastian school landed in 2026. Sebastian Charter Junior High on Wave Street posted 81 percent of possible points, the highest of the six. Sebastian River Middle on County Road 512 earned 72 percent, Sebastian River High 68 percent, Treasure Coast Elementary and Pelican Island Classical Magnet 67 percent each, and Sebastian Elementary on Sebastian Boulevard 66 percent.

The 2026 cutoffs differ by school type. For an A, an elementary school needed 62 percent of points, a middle school 64 percent and a high or combination school 65 percent, according to the scale printed in the state file. That puts Sebastian Elementary 4 points above its line and Sebastian River High 3 points above its line, the two narrowest margins among the city's campuses, while Sebastian River Middle cleared the middle school cutoff by 8 points.

Size and need vary across these schools. The National Center for Education Statistics counts Sebastian River High's 2024-2025 enrollment at 1,777 students, far larger than any other Sebastian campus. The FLDOE file lists economically disadvantaged students at 73.1 percent of Sebastian Elementary, 64.4 percent of Sebastian River Middle, 59.5 percent of Treasure Coast Elementary, 58.3 percent of Sebastian River High and 47.7 percent of Sebastian Charter Junior High.

Sebastian's schools moved from a mix of B and C grades in 2022 to straight A grades by 2026.

The climb started at the elementary level. In July 2022, Vero News published the district's grade release, which said Fellsmere Elementary, Indian River Academy, Sebastian Elementary, Storm Grove Middle School, and Treasure Coast Elementary all increased one letter grade, from a C to a B, compared with the 2018-19 school year. Treasure Coast Elementary, on 85th Street, reached an A the next year and has held it since, according to the FLDOE grade history.

The 2022-2023 results came in a transition year. Sebastian Daily reported in December 2023 that Indian River County earned the Treasure Coast's only district A for 2022-2023, its first since 2015, even though the new Florida Assessment of Student Thinking left no prior scores for learning-gains comparisons. Sebastian River Middle and Sebastian River High were still at C that year in the state file, then moved to B in 2024.

The secondary schools reached A in 2025. Speaking to the Sebastian City Council in October 2025, Superintendent David Moore said Sebastian Elementary kept its A while Sebastian River Middle and Sebastian River High both improved to A, as reported by Sebastian Daily, which also noted that Treasure Coast Elementary held an A. In July 2025, Vero News quoted the district: Sebastian River High School and Vero Beach High School stand as the only A-rated high schools in Indian River County, and the count of A-rated district schools rose from 4 in 2018 to 16.

Pelican Island Classical Magnet earned an A in 2026 after three B years, while Sebastian Charter Junior High has earned an A in every graded year since 2017.

Pelican Island was the last Sebastian campus to reach an A. The FLDOE file lists it at B for 2023, 2024 and 2025, the years before the district turned the Schumann Drive school, at 1355 Schumann Drive according to NCES, into a classical K-8 magnet. In its July 2026 report, WQCS named Pelican Island Classical Magnet School alongside Citrus Elementary School and Oslo Middle School as the three schools that improved from a B to an A.

The school's standing became a political point in 2025. WQCS reported that in October 2025 the Indian River County School Board disclosed a letter of intent from Miami-based Mater Academy to move into Pelican Island Classical Magnet under Florida's Schools of Hope law. Moore answered at the Sebastian City Council that Sebastian does not have any persistently low-performing schools, the group that program was first written to serve.

Sebastian Charter Junior High is the steadiest performer on the list. It is a public charter school at 782 Wave Street, per NCES, and the state history shows an A in every graded year since 2017, after a C in 2016. Sebastian Daily reported that the state board named it a School of Excellence for 2021-2022, the only school in Indian River County and one of only 110 middle schools in Florida to be recognized.

Florida grades each Sebastian school on state test achievement and learning gains, adding graduation and acceleration measures for Sebastian River High.

The grades are built from state test results. Treasure Coast Newspapers reported in July 2026 that the state factors in student performance on the 2025-2026 standardized tests and how much students improved over the year, and that grades for high schools such as Sebastian River High also include graduation and dropout measures. Florida has issued school grades since 1999, and the same report noted no failing schools on the Treasure Coast for a second year.

The components show up in the Sebastian numbers. In the FLDOE file, Sebastian River High's 2026 grade includes a 98 percent graduation rate and a 91 percent college and career acceleration score for 2024-25, while Sebastian River Middle's includes a middle school acceleration score of 93. Elementary grades lean on third-grade reading, where Sebastian Elementary and Treasure Coast Elementary each recorded 80 percent achievement. Countywide, the district reported third-grade reading at 76 percent, third-highest in Florida.

Indian River County ranked fifth of Florida's 67 districts in 2026 and has earned four straight district A grades.

The Sebastian grades sit inside a district that has moved up quickly. Treasure Coast Newspapers reported that Indian River County held fifth place among Florida's 67 districts in 2026 and is one of 16 statewide to keep an A for four straight years, after ranking 38th in 2018. CBS12 reported in August 2026 that the only Indian River County school to receive a B was Dodgertown Elementary School in Vero Beach.

Grades are reissued every summer, and the district is reshaping its schools for 2026-2027, under a plan the School Board approved 5-0 in December 2025 that would place Sebastian Elementary on the Sebastian River Middle campus on County Road 512, as reported by Sebastian Daily.

That Sebastian Elementary move was not confirmed as of October 2026. The school site still lists its address as 400 Sebastian Blvd (Sebastian Elementary School of the Arts), and the school calendar holds the October 19, 2026 School Advisory Council meeting there (school calendar). Sebastian Daily's August 9, 2026 rundown of completed summer moves mentioned that Glendale Elementary merged into Citrus Elementary but did not list Sebastian Elementary (Sebastian Daily). Each Sebastian campus will next be graded on 2026-2027 results, the year after the six A grades listed on this page.