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ROCKLEDGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ROCKLEDGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
ROCKLEDGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of the expansive 9-12 campuss in ROCKLEDGE, Florida, part of BREVARD, with 1,579 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 53% above the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 1,035 students.
Within BREVARD, which oversees 109 schools and 73,587 students, ROCKLEDGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
On demographics, ROCKLEDGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL records that 44% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 26% Black, 20% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Brevard County as a whole is about 73% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
With demographic context factored in, ROCKLEDGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.0%; this one delivers 43.4%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Brevard County indicate the typical household earns roughly $78,476 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. ROCKLEDGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 113 public schools in Brevard County (combined enrollment of about 73,587 students).
RONALD MCNAIR MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ROCKLEDGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 56.9%.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ROCKLEDGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has edged up 3%, going from 1,533 students in 2018 to 1,579 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 14% to 20% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 in 2025.
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