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Enrollment
832
Combined
DISTRICT 536 · STATE 353
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BREVARD·NCES 120015008612
PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNE
3455 NORFOLK PKWY, WEST MELBOURNE, FL 32904 · (321) 499-2585 · Brevard County
GRADES KG–10COMBINED21-SUBURBCHARTERREGULAR SCHOOL832 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 73% of Florida public K-12 schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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 K-12 schools
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
56 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.2:1 · STATE 17.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
30%
251 students
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other combined schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 72 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 72 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 90 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 87 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 86 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 88 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 83 | 10% |
| Grade 9 | 66 | 8% |
| Grade 10 | 32 | 4% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is 13% smaller than its 8th grade class (83).
Student demographics
54%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
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
63.3%
FL avg 56.7% . +0.6pp since 2023
Math
71.9%
FL avg 58.9% . +4.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.3% | 71.9% |
| 2023-24 | 62.7% | 67.3% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
66.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
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 PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNE
PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNE's state test result (66.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNE this school | 832 | 30.2% | 66.5% |
| SURFSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL PANAMA CITY BEACH | 755 | 34.2% | 62.0% |
| P.K. YONGE DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SCHOOL GAINESVILLE | 1,363 | 27.4% | 79.9% |
| JACKSONVILLE CLASSICAL ACADEMY JACKSONVILLE | 734 | 34.9% | 56.2% |
| ALTHA PUBLIC SCHOOL ALTHA | 653 | 43.2% | 55.8% |
| DEANE BOZEMAN SCHOOL PANAMA CITY | 1,690 | 37.2% | 63.7% |
Matched among Florida K-12 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 PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNE ranks
Among K-12 schools| Measure | This school | In Florida |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.5% | #6 of 25 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.9% | #7 of 25 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.3% | #9 of 25 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 832 | #11 of 180 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #20 of 40 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.4% | #24 of 42 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 30.2% | #65 of 74 |
Ranked against other public K-12 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
832
+184 (+28%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 14.7:1
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 | 832 | 55.5 | 15.0:1 | 30% (251) |
| 2023-24 | 799 | 53 | 15.1:1 | 27% (216) |
| 2022-23 | 796 | 52 | 15.3:1 | 31% (249) |
| 2020-21 | 648 | 44 | 14.7:1 | 18% (117) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNE.
About PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNE
PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNE is classified as a combined-grade school. It is located in WEST MELBOURNE, Florida. The grade span is kindergarten through 10, and enrollment is 832 students. An average school in this group (combined schools in Florida) has about 353 students.
BREVARD has 109 schools and 73,587 students, and PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNE is one of those schools.
PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNE is 65% White by enrollment. Other students are 17% Hispanic, 7% Black, 6% multiracial, and 4% Asian. By comparison, Brevard County residents are about 73% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 54% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Staffing totals 55.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 15.0:1. That is lower than the 17.7:1 average for combined schools in Florida. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 30%. Compared with the 42% average for public schools in Brevard County, the school's rate is lower.
allk12 grades PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNE a B+. The grade compares the school only with Florida public K-12 schools, because each state gives its own test.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 66.1% at PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNE; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 66.5%.
County data help place the school in context: in Brevard County, the median household income is $78,476, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. In all, Brevard County has 113 public schools and roughly 73,587 students.
Nearby, DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 1.8 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Local comparison: PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNE ranks 2nd of 8 nearby schools, at 66.5% versus a 59.5% average.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNE operates as a charter school, which is publicly funded and run under a charter.
Federal data show a 28% enrollment gain, from 648 in 2020-21 to 832 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 WEST MELBOURNE
- CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,059 students
- MEADOWLANE INTERMEDIATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 779 students
- IMAGINE SCHOOLS AT WEST MELBOURNEElementary · 665 students
- W. MELBOURNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOR SCIENCEElementary · 605 students
- MEADOWLANE PRIMARY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 603 students
- EDUCATIONAL HORIZONS CHARTERElementary · 137 students
Nearby schools
- DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 679
- MEADOWLANE PRIMARY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 603
- MEADOWLANE INTERMEDIATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 779
- CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL2.2 mi · 1,059
- LOCKMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.5 mi · 572
- W. MELBOURNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE2.5 mi · 605
Frequently asked questions
About PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNEWhat is the total enrollment at PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNE?
PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNE enrolls approximately 832 students in grades KG-10.
What age range does PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNE serve?
PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNE serves students from grade KG through grade 10.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNE?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNE is approximately 15.0:1 (56 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNE?
At PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNE, the student body is approximately 65% White, 17% Hispanic, 7% Black, 4% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNE?
PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNE is overseen by BREVARD in Brevard County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.