COCOA HIGH SCHOOL

Set in COCOA, Florida, COCOA HIGH SCHOOL is a medium-sized four-year high school, one of the schools within BREVARD. It works with 1,432 students across grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 38% bigger than the state mean of about 1,035.

COCOA HIGH SCHOOL is one of 109 schools operated by BREVARD, a district that caters to 73,587 students overall.

Demographically, COCOA HIGH SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White at 32%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 30% Hispanic, 29% Black, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 73% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, COCOA HIGH SCHOOL has 89 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. Roughly 64% of students at COCOA HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Brevard County's rate of about 42%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, COCOA HIGH SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 48.9%; actual is 29.1%, a gap of -19.8 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Brevard County) reports that median household earnings sit near $78,476, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Brevard County's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,587 students), COCOA HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

SATURN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), COCOA HIGH SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 38.8%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. COCOA HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 1,600 (now 1,432). White enrollment moved from 46% to 32% across the same window.

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