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If you could change one rule at PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, what would it be?
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Enrollment
1,359
High
DISTRICT 1,159 · STATE 1,035
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BREVARD·NCES 120015000104
PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
101 PIRATE LN, MELBOURNE, FL 32901 · (321) 952-5900 · Brevard County
GRADES 08–12HIGH13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,359 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 4% of Florida public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public high schools
Student : Teacher
19.0:1
72 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.1:1 · STATE 23.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
52%
706 students
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 20 | 1% |
| Grade 8 | 2 | 0% |
| Grade 9 | 328 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 397 | 29% |
| Grade 11 | 378 | 28% |
| Grade 12 | 234 | 17% |
Student demographics
72%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
School pathway
Based on grade levels within BREVARD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
43.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +4.3pp since 2023
Math
13.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.0% | 13.0% |
| 2023-24 | 38.7% | 12.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
35.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 55% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (35.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,359 | 51.9% | 35.9% |
| ROCKLEDGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ROCKLEDGE | 1,579 | 48.2% | 43.4% |
| LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL LEESBURG | 1,724 | 47.7% | 33.0% |
| RUTHERFORD HIGH SCHOOL PANAMA CITY | 1,394 | 57.7% | 34.0% |
| PALATKA JR - SR HIGH SCHOOL PALATKA | 1,568 | 51.5% | 33.6% |
| HERITAGE HIGH SCHOOL PALM BAY | 1,960 | 57.7% | 46.0% |
Matched among Florida high 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 PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Brevard County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.9% | #524 of 555 | #15 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.0% | #540 of 549 ▼ 4 | #16 of 16 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #469 of 559 ▼ 11 | #15 of 16 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,359 | #329 of 830 | #11 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.0:1 | #120 of 575 | #4 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.1% | #14 of 594 | #2 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 51.9% | #202 of 630 | #3 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.3% | #97 of 289 | #2 of 10 |
Ranked against other public high 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
1,359
+23 (+2%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 1,774
Student : Teacher
19.0:1
was 17.8:1
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 | 1,359 | 71.5 | 19.0:1 | 52% (706) |
| 2023-24 | 1,411 | 72 | 19.6:1 | 58% (812) |
| 2022-23 | 1,486 | 71 | 20.9:1 | 63% (937) |
| 2020-21 | 1,336 | 75 | 17.8:1 | 72% (965) |
| 2017-18 | 1,586 | 86 | 18.4:1 | 59% (934) |
| 2015-16 | 1,570 | 87 | 18.1:1 | 61% (950) |
| 2010-11 | 1,893 | 115 | 16.5:1 | 42% (793) |
| 2000-01 | 1,804 | 100 | 18.0:1 | 19% (350) |
| 1990-91 | 1,774 | 103 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a medium-sized high school with its address in MELBOURNE, Florida. The school's 1,359 students are in grades 8 through 12. Enrollment is 31% higher than the average for high schools in Florida, which is about 1,035.
PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is part of BREVARD, where 109 schools serve 73,587 students.
PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has no majority group; White students are the largest, at 36%. Smaller groups are 30% Black, 21% Hispanic, and 11% multiracial. County-wide, 73% of Brevard County residents are White. PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's diversity index is 72%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal staffing data show 71.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL and a ratio of 19.0:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 23.5:1 average for high schools in Florida. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 52% of enrollment. That is higher than the 42% average for public schools in Brevard County.
PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is graded F by allk12, scoring above 4% of Florida public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
After accounting for student poverty, PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests of 35.9% is 19.2 points below the 55.1% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Brevard County show that the median household income is $78,476, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Besides PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, Brevard County has 112 other public schools.
Of nearby public schools, PALM BAY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is the closest, at about 1.1 miles. PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes in 8th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Small: inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment at PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL was 1,336 in 2020-21 and 1,359 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%. Students per teacher rose from 17.8 in 2020-21 to 19.0 in 2024-25.
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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 MELBOURNE
- MELBOURNE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,210 students
- EAU GALLIE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,398 students
- WEST SHORE JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 948 students
- QUEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 687 students
- ROY ALLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 619 students
- SUNTREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 585 students
Nearby schools
- PALM BAY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL1.1 mi · 370
- UNIVERSITY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 529
- STONE MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 557
- RIVIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 718
- IMAGINE SCHOOLS AT WEST MELBOURNE2.1 mi · 665
- PALM BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 583
Frequently asked questions
About PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,359 students in grades 08-12.
Is PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 08-12.
How many teachers does PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL have?
PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL employs 72 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.0:1.
How diverse is PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 36% White, 21% Hispanic, 30% Black, 1% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by BREVARD in Brevard County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.