PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY

PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY is one of the big combined-grade schools in PALM BAY, Florida, one of the schools within BREVARD, with 1,065 students on its rolls from grades K through 12. That puts it 202% bigger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 353 students.

Within BREVARD, which oversees 109 schools and 73,587 students, PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY shows that 65% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 21% Hispanic, 6% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Brevard County as a whole is about 73% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY has 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. An estimated 25% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Brevard County's rate of about 42%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 68.9%; this one delivers 67.1%.

In the broader community, Brevard County reports that median household income runs about $78,476, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Brevard County's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,587 students), PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

CHRISTA MCAULIFFE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 52.7%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 77%: 601 students in 2018 compared to 1,065 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 16% to 21% over that span.

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