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Enrollment
477
Elementary
DISTRICT 557 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BREVARD·NCES 120015000093
CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL
2000 CAMBRIDGE DR, COCOA, FL 32922 · (321) 633-3550 · Brevard County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL477 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
334 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 | 60 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 65 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 53 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 62 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is about the same size as its 6th grade class (62).
Student demographics
67%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
43.7%
FL avg 56.7% . +11.4pp since 2023
Math
43.7%
FL avg 58.9% . +5.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.7% | 43.7% |
| 2023-24 | 32.3% | 37.8% |
% 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
42.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL
CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL's state test result (42.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL this school | 477 | 70.0% | 42.8% |
| DUNEDIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DUNEDIN | 474 | 68.1% | 45.7% |
| AVON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AVON PARK | 503 | 68.8% | 51.6% |
| JACKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PLANT CITY | 451 | 73.2% | 30.7% |
| YATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRANDON | 548 | 70.3% | 31.9% |
| FLORINE J ABEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SARASOTA | 485 | 73.6% | 59.8% |
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 CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Brevard County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.8% | #1,692 of 2,136 | #53 of 66 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.7% | #1,804 of 2,149 ▲ 94 | #54 of 66 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.7% | #1,619 of 2,149 ▲ 329 | #55 of 66 ▲ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 477 | #1,507 of 2,267 | #43 of 68 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #484 of 2,077 | #39 of 66 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.3% | #406 of 2,108 | #18 of 66 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.0% | #458 of 2,188 | #8 of 68 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.7% | #197 of 1,374 | #8 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
477
-42 (-8%) vs 2020
-7% since 1990-91, when it was 511
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 477 | 33 | 14.4:1 | 70% (334) |
| 2023-24 | 505 | 35 | 14.4:1 | 73% (369) |
| 2022-23 | 495 | 27 | 18.3:1 | 78% (388) |
| 2020-21 | 519 | 39 | 13.3:1 | 77% (399) |
| 2017-18 | 679 | 50 | 13.6:1 | 82% (557) |
| 2015-16 | 665 | 51 | 13.0:1 | 80% (533) |
| 2010-11 | 543 | 46 | 11.8:1 | 89% (481) |
| 2000-01 | 637 | 41 | 15.5:1 | 76% (487) |
| 1990-91 | 511 | 27 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL.
About CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL
Families in COCOA, Florida, are served by CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL, a low-enrollment elementary school. Grades offered run from pre-K through 6, with 477 students enrolled. The average among elementary schools in Florida is roughly 604 students; this school is 21% smaller than that.
BREVARD counts 73,587 students in its 109 schools, and CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is one of them.
At CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL, the largest share of students is Hispanic, at 48%. Next come 23% Black, 19% White, and 9% multiracial. The county population is about 12% Hispanic. CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL's diversity index is 67%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal data list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers at CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL in 2024-25, for a ratio of 14.4:1. That is lower than the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. The lunch program counts 70% of students at CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Brevard County is 42%.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is 3.3 points below its prediction. Actual: 42.8%. Predicted: 46.1%.
Among Brevard County residents, the median household income is $78,476, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is one of 113 public schools in the county.
Nearby, BREVARD VIRTUAL FRANCHISE is about 0.6 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Local comparison: CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL ranks 2nd of 6 nearby schools, at 42.8% versus a 36.7% average.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show an 8% enrollment decrease, from 519 in 2020-21 to 477 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 13.3:1 to 14.4:1.
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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 COCOA
- SPACE COAST JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,503 students
- COCOA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,432 students
- ENDEAVOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 732 students
- ATLANTIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 650 students
- SATURN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 619 students
- ENTERPRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 597 students
Nearby schools
- BREVARD VIRTUAL FRANCHISE0.6 mi · 215
- ENDEAVOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 732
- COCOA HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 1,432
- SATURN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 619
- EMMA JEWEL CHARTER ACADEMY2.3 mi · 339
- RONALD MCNAIR MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL2.5 mi · 262
Frequently asked questions
About CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOLHow large is CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL?
CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL enrolls approximately 477 students in grades PK-06.
Is CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many students per teacher at CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL?
Approximately 14.4:1 students per teacher at CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL.
How diverse is CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL?
CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL reports a student body of 19% White, 48% Hispanic, 23% Black, 9% Two or more.
What district is CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL in?
CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is part of BREVARD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.