Sebastian Elementary School

Sebastian Elementary School is a School District of Indian River County public school at 400 Sebastian Blvd, Sebastian, FL 32958, serving prekindergarten through grade 5 on a 9:00 a.m. to 3:40 p.m. school day.

The school's site banner reads 9:00 am-3:40 pm | Grades PreK-5 | 772-978-8190, and its footer gives the Sebastian Blvd address (Sebastian Elementary website, June 2026 capture). The live site, read on October 11, 2026, shows the same address in the footer and lists the School Advisory Council meeting for October 19, 2026 at 400 Sebastian Blvd (Sebastian Elementary School of the Arts).

The federal directory agrees. The National Center for Education Statistics lists Sebastian Elementary as an open regular school, not a charter, with State School ID FL-31-0191 and a grade span of PK to 5, at 400 Sebastian Blvd with the district phone (772) 978-8200 (NCES school record). FL-31-0191 is the number the Florida Department of Education uses for the school's report card: district 31 is Indian River County and 0191 is Sebastian Elementary.

The 9:00 a.m. bell follows the countywide pattern for 2026-27. Sebastian Daily reported that Indian River County public schools opened on Aug. 10, 2026, that high schools now start at 7:20 a.m., and that middle and K-8 schools begin at 8:10 a.m., and elementary schools start at 9 a.m. (Sebastian Daily, August 9, 2026). Families on the Sebastian side meet the same staggered morning on County Road 512, where Sebastian River Middle starts earlier than the elementary school.

Official school district and federal sources read on October 11, 2026 still place Sebastian Elementary at 400 Sebastian Blvd, so a completed August 2026 move onto the Sebastian River Middle School campus could not be confirmed.

The plan itself is documented. In November 2025 Vero News reported the district's push toward K-8 schools after the four middle schools fell to 54 percent of capacity, and wrote that Sebastian Elementary School of the Arts will move in with Sebastian Middle School (Vero News, November 28, 2025). Sebastian Daily reported on December 19, 2025 that the Indian River County School Board passed the consolidation 5-0 at a special meeting, with changes set to take effect in August 2026, and that Sebastian Elementary will share space with Sebastian River Middle School (Sebastian Daily, December 19, 2025).

In June 2026 Vero News described the Sebastian Boulevard property as one the district had asked a broker to list, and stated that its students and faculty would move in with those at the Sebastian River Middle School campus, leaving the school empty (Vero News, June 25, 2026).

The evidence after the summer points the other way. Sebastian Daily's back to school report of August 9, 2026 listed the moves that did happen over the summer: Vero Beach High ninth graders joined the main campus, Oslo Middle became Vero Beach Middle, Osceola and Rosewood magnets went to former middle school sites, and Glendale Elementary merged into Citrus Elementary. Sebastian Elementary is not on that list (Sebastian Daily). The Sebastian River Middle School site lists only Grades 6-8 and an 8:10 am to 2:51 pm day (Sebastian River Middle School), and NCES records that campus at 9400 Fellsmere Rd with grade span 6 to 8 (NCES, Sebastian River Middle).

Until the School District of Indian River County posts a new address for Sebastian Elementary, the Sebastian Boulevard campus is the address of record, and the front office at 772-978-8190 is the place to confirm where a given class meets. This page will be updated when the district publishes the change.

Sebastian Elementary earned an A in Florida's 2025-26 school grades, its third A in a row after B grades in 2021-22 and 2022-23, according to the Florida Department of Education report card (FLDOE report card).

The support column matters as much as the letter for Sebastian Elementary. ATSI is the federal Additional Targeted Support and Improvement flag, which the state report card showed for the school in 2021-22 and 2022-23 and which dropped off once the grade reached A in 2023-24. The 2025-26 testing rate of 97 percent was the first year below 99 percent in the five year span.

The whole county moved the same way. CBS12 reported on August 12, 2026 that the Indian River County School District was graded A for the fourth straight year, that all but one district school received an A, and that the only school to receive a B was Dodgertown Elementary School in Vero Beach (CBS12). That puts Sebastian Elementary inside the large A group rather than at the margin of the district's results.

Sebastian Elementary runs as a School of the Arts, with arts integrated instruction across grade levels and enrichment in music, dance, theatre and visual arts, according to the school's story page (Sebastian Elementary School of the Arts).

The same page lists the activities that carry the program outside class time at the Sebastian Blvd school: STEAM focused learning, Color Guard, a Drama Club with school showcases, an Art Club, the Drum Line and step performance groups. Three signature programs are named: the Competitive Sea Turtle Cheer and Dance Team, the SES Drum Line and the Sebastian Steppers Step Team. The Sea Turtle is the school mascot, and the school feed announced a Drama Club production of Disney's 101 Dalmatians in the Sea Turtle cafeteria on May 6, 2026.

The points of pride on the Sebastian Elementary page are a Purple Star School of Distinction, PBIS Model School status, a Mardy Fish Children's Foundation grant and a High Impact Grant for the Drumming Sea Turtles program. A district post on the school feed in 2026 called Sebastian the district's only Elementary School of the Arts serving PreK through 5, and the school points prospective Indian River County families to the district's enrollment and school choice process.

The Purple Star dates from December 2024. Vero News reported that Sebastian Elementary, Sebastian River Middle and Sebastian River High were part of 176 Florida schools honored that month for programs serving military families, and that the designation lasts from the school years 2024-2025 through 2026-2027 (Vero News, December 17, 2024). All three Sebastian public campuses therefore hold the designation through the current school year.

Sebastian Elementary enrolled 312 students in the 2024-2025 school year, taught by 22 full-time-equivalent classroom teachers for a student to teacher ratio of 14.18, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).

The shape of those numbers explains the consolidation debate in Sebastian. Grades 3 and 5 are more than twice the size of the kindergarten class, so the lower grades at 400 Sebastian Blvd are thin. NCES also counts 159 boys and 153 girls, and 199 of the 312 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in that year.

The middle school next in the plan is far larger. NCES lists Sebastian River Middle School with 775 students in grades 6 to 8 in 2024-2025 and a ratio of 19.87 students per teacher (NCES, Sebastian River Middle). The district's 2026-2027 capital plan, as reported by Vero News on August 8, 2026, includes roof replacements at Gifford Middle School and Sebastian River Middle School (Vero News, August 8, 2026).

The School District of Indian River County asked broker Cushman and Wakefield in 2026 to list the 41.1-acre Sebastian Elementary property at 400 Sebastian Blvd, assessed at $4,266,901, to test its market value (Vero News, June 25, 2026).

Listing is not the same as selling. Vero News reported that any sale of a listed Sebastian site would require the superintendent to recommend that the property be declared surplus and the school board to approve it, and that the broker's fees would be paid only when properties are sold. The listing was a test of value for five school sites and four undeveloped parcels, driven by an enrollment that the paper put at 2,000 fewer students than in 2019.

Another north county school was on the same list. The Wabasso School at 8895 U.S. 1, Sebastian, sits on 3.61 acres, and its main building was built in 1925 and served as the area's first school, according to the same Vero News report. Under the November 2025 plan, Wabasso School students are to move to a retrofitted Glendale Elementary campus in Vero Beach.

No sale of the Sebastian Elementary property had been reported by October 11, 2026, and the school's own calendar continued to list meetings at the Sebastian Boulevard address that month.