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SPACE COAST JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SPACE COAST JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
SPACE COAST JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a high school of middle-of-the-pack scale in COCOA, Florida, one of the schools within BREVARD, caters to 1,503 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so SPACE COAST JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits 45% larger than that benchmark.
BREVARD comprises 109 schools with combined enrollment of 73,587 students; SPACE COAST JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, SPACE COAST JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs that 74% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 10% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 6% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Brevard County as a whole.
On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting SPACE COAST JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SPACE COAST JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.7%; this one delivers 58.4%.
In the surrounding community, Brevard County reports that the typical household earns roughly $78,476 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Brevard County runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,587 students), of which SPACE COAST JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: ENTERPRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SPACE COAST JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SPACE COAST JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 56.5%.
Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SPACE COAST JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has decreased 6%, going from 1,597 students in 2018 to 1,503 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 today.
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Brevard County at a glance
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