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How has AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
416
Elementary
DISTRICT 557 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BREVARD·NCES 120015000122
AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1201 N BANANA RIVER DR, MERRITT ISLAND, FL 32952 · (321) 452-2085 · Brevard County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL416 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 70% of Florida public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
45%
187 students
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 23 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 45 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 57 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 52 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 62 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is 27% smaller than its 6th grade class (62).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
64.8%
FL avg 56.7% . +1.5pp since 2023
Math
68.8%
FL avg 58.9% . -4.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.8% | 68.8% |
| 2023-24 | 63.3% | 73.4% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
65.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (65.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 416 | 45.0% | 65.2% |
| COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY AT WELLEN PARK FORT LAUDERDALE | 409 | 44.0% | 60.8% |
| HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PENSACOLA | 517 | 43.5% | 67.0% |
| PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PORT ST JOE | 428 | 43.0% | 55.5% |
| LULA J. EDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NICEVILLE | 501 | 46.5% | 70.5% |
| KETTERLINUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ST AUGUSTINE | 405 | 44.9% | 70.7% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Brevard County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.2% | #633 of 2,136 | #25 of 66 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.8% | #697 of 2,149 ▼ 265 | #24 of 66 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.8% | #630 of 2,149 ▼ 34 | #26 of 66 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 416 | #1,722 of 2,267 | #54 of 68 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #301 of 2,077 | #30 of 66 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.5% | #1,101 of 2,108 | #40 of 66 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.0% | #1,448 of 2,188 | #39 of 68 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.5% | #285 of 1,374 | #12 of 46 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
416
-53 (-11%) vs 2020
-34% since 1990-91, when it was 627
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 13.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 416 | 30 | 13.9:1 | 45% (187) |
| 2023-24 | 420 | 34 | 12.3:1 | 51% (216) |
| 2022-23 | 450 | 34 | 13.2:1 | 58% (260) |
| 2020-21 | 469 | 36 | 13.0:1 | 52% (244) |
| 2017-18 | 566 | 41 | 13.8:1 | 50% (284) |
| 2015-16 | 644 | 44 | 14.6:1 | 50% (320) |
| 2010-11 | 496 | 36 | 13.8:1 | 34% (171) |
| 2000-01 | 677 | 35 | 19.3:1 | 19% (131) |
| 1990-91 | 627 | 35 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the public schools in MERRITT ISLAND, Florida. It is a small elementary school. Its enrollment is 416 students, spread over pre-K through 6. That compares with an average of about 604 students for elementary schools in Florida.
BREVARD has 73,587 students in 109 schools, and AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those schools.
More than half of the students at AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are White (64%). Other reported shares: 13% multiracial, 13% Hispanic, 6% Black, and 2% Asian. That compares with about 73% White among all Brevard County residents. The diversity index for AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 55%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Staffing at AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes to 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.9:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Florida is 17.5:1. AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL counts 45% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Brevard County is similar, at 42%.
AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds a B+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 70% of Florida public elementary schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 65.2%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 58.6%.
In Brevard County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $78,476, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. There are 113 public schools in the county, enrolling about 73,587, AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, ROBERT L. STEVENSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is about 1.4 miles. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 5th of 7 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 416, down from 469 in 2020-21.
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Brevard County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
632,780
Census ACS
Median income
$78,476
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
113
73,587 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BREVARD
- VIERA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,334 students
- MELBOURNE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,210 students
- BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,122 students
- HERITAGE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,960 students
- ODYSSEY CHARTER SCHOOLCombined · 1,917 students
- ROCKLEDGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,579 students
Other schools in MERRITT ISLAND
- MERRITT ISLAND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,446 students
- EDGEWOOD JR/SR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 942 students
- LEWIS CARROLL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 634 students
- TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 569 students
- ROBERT L. STEVENSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 481 students
- THOMAS JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 481 students
Other Audubon Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 9 states are named Audubon Elementary. AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 5th largest of the 10.
- Audubon Elementary SchoolChicago, IL · 606 students
- Audubon Elementary SchoolMAGNOLIA, TX · 509 students
- Audubon Elementary SchoolBaton Rouge, LA · 495 students
- Audubon ElementaryFoster City, CA · 445 students
- Audubon Elementary SchoolOwensboro, KY · 408 students
Nearby schools
- ROBERT L. STEVENSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 481
- MERRITT ISLAND HIGH SCHOOL1.8 mi · 1,446
- EDGEWOOD JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL2.0 mi · 942
- LEWIS CARROLL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 634
- MILA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.3 mi · 382
- GARDENDALE SEPARATE DAY SCHOOL2.3 mi · 62
Frequently asked questions
About AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 416 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-06.
How many teachers does AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.9:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 64% White, 13% Hispanic, 6% Black, 2% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Who oversees AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by BREVARD in Brevard County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.