SABAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in MELBOURNE, Florida, SABAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small K-5 school, run under BREVARD. It enrolls 493 students across grades pre-K through 6.

BREVARD runs 109 schools in total, collectively educating 73,587 students. SABAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SABAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 31% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 9% Black, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 73% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Brevard County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, SABAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.9%, the actual is 42.2%, a residual of -9.7 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Brevard County shows 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%. Across Brevard County's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,587 students), SABAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SOUTH AREA ALTERNATIVE LEARNING CENTER, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SABAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SABAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has ticked down 9%, going from 543 students in 2018 to 493 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 61% to 47%.

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