Renaissance Charter School of St Lucie

About Renaissance Charter School

Renaissance Charter School of St. Lucie is a public tuition-free charter school serving students all over St Lucie County in grades Kindergarten to 8th Grade.

For our academic program, we make sure that we meet the needs of all students. We do this through our student data conferences, student-led conferences, student data notebooks, intensive small group instruction every day, RTI, and our extensive tutoring program. In addition to these programs, we also have a Cambridge Advanced Studies program for students that are high achieving and demand a more accelerated and enriching program. This program is by application only and we have a very selective process of ensuring that students who are high-performing with a high desire to learn are pushed to their highest potential. Our Cambridge program not only includes gifted instruction, but it also includes global awareness by ensuring that students are ready for global competitiveness. In middle school we offer high school level classes in Algebra, Geometry, Spanish, and Biology.

A Well Rounded Campus

At RCSSL we teach to the whole child.  It is important to meet the social and emotional needs of all students.  We are a PBIS school, which helps support positive behavior.  We  teach character education and have a character trait of the month where we focus on character traits that all productive citizen should have through our SEL (Social Emotional Learning) program.  Through our SEL program we also offer a wide variety of family and parent supports, classes, and activities.

We have the largest middle school sports program in the St. Lucie School District. 5th grade through 8th grade can try out for sports. 

At RCSSL,  we have the largest performing arts program in the area that includes full-length Broadway shows.  We have have been recognized by the Music Teachers Association. Mr. Laird and his team put on professional shows including professional costumes at our local theaters like the Lyric Theater and the Sunrise Theater. This production of over a hundred students every year and dialysis our singing program, costume creation, theatrical performance program, and artistic abilities of all of our students.

We offer a ride range of after-school enrichment programs.  These clubs can be anything from cross-stitching to cooking to homework helper. Students of all ages can find something fun and enriching to do after school. Students who are struggling with their academics are also invited to our after-school tutoring program which Services over 500 students.

There are computers and a Smartboard in every classroom, we have computer labs, laptop carts, and an iPad cart for each floor so all students interact with technology.  We offer regular computer instruction in the elementary grades, which includes typing skills, skills for basic Microsoft programs, and coding. Our middle school our technology teacher incorporates coding, robotics, 21st century skills, and advanced Microsoft skills along with project based technology programs.  These middle school classes can earn students industry certifications.  Our STEAM focused  Makerspace is state-of-the-art and the only one in this area. In the Makerspace students can pull apart and put back computers, fix computers, develop animation on the Lego wall, print objects in three-dimensional form, and invent or create new ideas while working with each other through the kanban wall.