MELBOURNE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

MELBOURNE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of the sprawling secondary schools in MELBOURNE, Florida, run under BREVARD, with 2,210 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 114% larger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 1,035 students.

Across the 109 schools in BREVARD (73,587 students total), MELBOURNE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MELBOURNE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 65%. Beyond that, the school lists 15% Hispanic, 9% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 73%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, MELBOURNE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has 101 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting MELBOURNE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 29% of students at MELBOURNE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Brevard County's rate of about 42%.

After controlling for student poverty, MELBOURNE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.5%, the actual is 56.5%, a residual of -10.0 points.

In the broader community, census data for Brevard County shows the typical household earns roughly $78,476 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Brevard County's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,587 students), MELBOURNE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is RIVERSIDE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MELBOURNE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, MELBOURNE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 57.4%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 2,215 students in 2018 compared to 2,210 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 71% to 65% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 22.0:1 today.

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