DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in PALM BAY, Florida, DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves 679 students from grades pre-K through 6, run under BREVARD.

Within BREVARD, which oversees 109 schools and 73,587 students, DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 36% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 31% Black, 24% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 73%.

On the resource side, DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 67% of students at DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Brevard County's rate of about 42%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.5%, the actual is 42.5%, a residual of -5.0 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Brevard County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $78,476 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Brevard County runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,587 students), of which DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNE, around 1.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 57.2%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has increased 19%, going from 572 students in 2018 to 679 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 48% to 36% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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