PALM BAY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL

PALM BAY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, a low-enrollment elementary campus in PALM BAY, Florida, run under BREVARD, serves 370 students, covering grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 39% smaller than the state mean of about 604.

BREVARD runs 109 schools in total, collectively educating 73,587 students. PALM BAY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, PALM BAY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL logs that 46% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 21% White, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Brevard County as a whole is about 10% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.9:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Brevard County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PALM BAY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.1%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Brevard County put median household income runs about $78,476, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PALM BAY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is one of 113 public schools in Brevard County (combined enrollment of about 73,587 students).

Nearest neighbor: PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PALM BAY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, PALM BAY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.3%.

The school occupies a downtown site. PALM BAY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 32%: 541 students in 2018 compared to 370 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 16% to 24% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.

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