Dodgertown Elementary, near Vero Beach

Dodgertown Elementary, the 43rd Avenue school near Vero Beach, received a B in the 2025-26 Florida school grades, with 58 in the Percent of Total Possible Points column of its state row.

The Florida Department of Education workbook headed 2025-26 School Grades as of September 1, 2026 lists DODGERTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the Vero Beach area campus, as school number 0151 in district 31, INDIAN RIVER. Its Grade 2026 cell reads B and its Grade 2025 cell reads A (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades workbook). The row records 462 total points earned across 8 components, and the Percent Tested cell reads 97.

A note at the top of the workbook gives the elementary scale used for the 43rd Avenue campus, whose School Type cell is 01 (Elementary): a B covers 54% to 61% of points, an A starts at 62% of points, and a C covers 41% to 53% (state grade workbook). The Charter School cell in the Dodgertown row reads NO, the Title I cell reads YES, and the Percent of Economically Disadvantaged Students cell reads 84.1.

Mathematics Learning Gains of the Lowest 25% reads 70 in the row for the school near Vero Beach, while Grade 3 English Language Arts Achievement reads 44.

The table reproduces, for the 43rd Avenue school, the component cells and the summary cells of row 1735 under the column labels FLDOE prints (FLDOE school grades workbook, Indian River rows). Total Points Earned is the state's own figure for the school; nothing in the table was added up for this page.

In the row for the Vero Beach area school, the English Language Arts Learning Gains cell (64) reads higher than the English Language Arts Achievement cell (51), and Mathematics Learning Gains (55) reads higher than Mathematics Achievement (48). Nothing is filled in for social studies, acceleration or graduation in the Dodgertown row, and Total Components stays at 8.

The row for the 43rd Avenue school shows B for 2026, A for 2025 and C for 2024, with earlier cells ranging from A to D.

The workbook keeps a long grade history in the same row for the school near Vero Beach, and the table copies a selection of those cells exactly as printed (FLDOE workbook, row 1735). The file has no 2020 column, the Grade 2021 cell is blank for Dodgertown, and the 2023 and 2015 columns are labeled Informational Baseline Grade rather than Grade.

Older cells in the 43rd Avenue school's row reach back to Grade 1999, which reads C, and the column headers are the only labels the file gives them. The Indian River County schools guide places Dodgertown beside the other district campuses for families comparing options.

Dodgertown Elementary is at 4350 43rd Avenue with a Vero Beach mailing address, ZIP 32967, and the school office answers at (772) 564-4100.

The school's website lists the campus at 4350 43rd Avenue, Vero Beach, FL 32967, main number (772) 564-4100 and fax (772) 564-4093 (Dodgertown Elementary website). The district's 2026-2027 Parent Guide gives the same street address and phone on its page 14 school contact list, with grades PreK through 5th and the social tag #MyDES (SDIRC 2026-2027 Parent Guide). The federal school search spells it 4350 43RD AVE, VERO BEACH, FL 32967, phone (772) 564-4100 (NCES school list for Indian River).

The Vero Beach area school presents itself as A STEAM Designated School and the Home of STEAM Park, and the district runs full-day Voluntary Prekindergarten on the campus.

The banner on the 43rd Avenue school's home page carries two phrases, "A STEAM Designated School" and Home of STEAM Park, next to the school day and the grade span PreK-5 (school website). The site's menu links pages on the school's story, families, dining, Transportation, Connected by Community and Instructional Materials pages; the program detail sits on those pages rather than on the home page, so the STEAM label is the school's own description.

The Parent Guide names Dodgertown Elementary among the district sites offering full-day VPK of 540 hours, a list that also includes Beachland, Fellsmere, Sebastian and Vero Beach elementaries, Indian River Academy and Pelican Island Classical Magnet, adds that district VPK does not include transportation or before or after care, and says a child must be 4 years old on or before September 1 (Parent Guide VPK section). Placement runs through a lottery that begins in early January, and families start the application by calling Early Learning Programs at 772-564-6091. Florida law sets the same age line: a child who will be 4 on or before September 1 of the school year is eligible for the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program, and a parent may pick, among the program options, one that a public school delivers during the school year (section 1002.53, Florida Statutes).

Classes at the 43rd Avenue campus run 9:00 a.m. to 3:40 p.m., and the district Extended Day Program offers care before and after that day at the school.

The Parent Guide's School Schedules list sets elementary school start at 9:00 a.m. and dismissal at 3:40 p.m., with modified days ending at 1:50 p.m., which matches the hours on the home page of the school near Vero Beach (SDIRC Parent Guide schedules). The Extended Day section lists Dodgertown Elementary Online Registration among its campus links and describes a morning session from 7:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and an afternoon session from 3:40 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on regular school days for kindergarten through 5th grade. The guide asks families of students new to the program to register through the campus link and gives 772-564-4999 for questions.

For buses to the 43rd Avenue school, the guide points families to the Find My Bus or School link on the district website: entering a street address, municipality and grade level shows the zone school, stop location and morning and afternoon times. If no stop appears, the routing line is 772-978-8801, option 2 (Parent Guide transportation section).

For the school near Vero Beach, NCES lists 482 students, the state Title I list counts 465 students ages 5 to 17, and the school's Title I program type is SW.

The NCES school list shows 482 students in grades PK-5 at the 43rd Avenue address, a figure its notes date to official 2024-2025 school data (NCES school list). The Florida Department of Education's 2024-25 Title I school list gives 465 total students ages 5 to 17 for the campus, of whom 360 are counted as children from low-income families, listed as 77.42% (FLDOE 2024-25 Title I school list). The program type column reads SW for Dodgertown.

Vero Beach area families who want a seat outside their zone use the district's School Choice application, which the Parent Guide says requires a Focus account, allows as many as three choice schools on one student's application, and leaves a family ten days, once the lottery has run, to take or turn down the offer (Parent Guide school choice section).

The final row of the Parent Guide contact list, after the Dodgertown entry and the other campuses, is the School District Office: JA Thompson Administrative Complex, 6500 57th Street, Vero Beach, FL 32967, phone 564-3000 (Parent Guide contact list). Bus riders headed to a choice, charter or magnet school, rather than their zone school, are told to call the Department of Transportation for a depot stop location.

Last verified: October 22, 2026, against the Dodgertown website, row 1735 of the state grades workbook, the FLDOE Title I list for 2024-25, pages 13 to 15 and the VPK, Extended Day and transportation pages of the 2026-2027 Parent Guide, the NCES list and section 1002.53 of the Florida Statutes.