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Enrollment
569
Elementary
DISTRICT 557 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BREVARD·NCES 120015000121
TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
885 S COURTENAY PKWY, MERRITT ISLAND, FL 32952 · (321) 454-1080 · Brevard County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL569 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 76% of Florida public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
263 students
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 10 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 61 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 72 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 104 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 86 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 29% smaller than its 6th grade class (86).
Student demographics
42%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
68.5%
FL avg 56.7% . -0.1pp since 2023
Math
59.8%
FL avg 58.9% . -7.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 69 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 have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.5% | 59.8% |
| 2023-24 | 68.6% | 67.2% |
% 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
66.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.0%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (66.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 569 | 46.2% | 66.8% |
| ENGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ENGLEWOOD | 564 | 45.9% | 70.9% |
| YULEE PRIMARY SCHOOL YULEE | 582 | 47.9% | N/A |
| YULEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL YULEE | 589 | 44.0% | 69.0% |
| S. S. DIXON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL PACE | 676 | 47.3% | 64.4% |
| LULA J. EDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NICEVILLE | 501 | 46.5% | 70.5% |
Matched among Florida elementary 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 TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Brevard County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.8% | #568 of 2,136 | #22 of 66 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.8% | #1,104 of 2,149 ▼ 455 | #33 of 66 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.5% | #496 of 2,149 ▼ 92 | #22 of 66 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 569 | #1,146 of 2,267 | #33 of 68 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #401 of 2,077 | #37 of 66 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.6% | #1,625 of 2,108 | #53 of 66 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.2% | #1,409 of 2,188 | #37 of 68 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.5% | #231 of 1,374 | #10 of 46 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
569
-112 (-16%) vs 2020
-47% since 1990-91, when it was 1,075
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 14.5:1
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 | 569 | 40 | 14.2:1 | 46% (263) |
| 2023-24 | 619 | 38 | 16.3:1 | 50% (309) |
| 2022-23 | 671 | 37 | 18.1:1 | 51% (344) |
| 2020-21 | 681 | 47 | 14.5:1 | 49% (336) |
| 2017-18 | 796 | 54 | 14.7:1 | 42% (336) |
| 2015-16 | 765 | 50 | 15.3:1 | 47% (358) |
| 2010-11 | 690 | 45 | 15.3:1 | 33% (225) |
| 2000-01 | 922 | 50 | 18.4:1 | 16% (147) |
| 1990-91 | 1,075 | 56 | 19.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in MERRITT ISLAND, Florida, and is classified as an elementary school. The school enrolls 569 students, from pre-K through 6.
BREVARD runs 109 schools with a combined 73,587 students. TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of them.
White students account for 75% of enrollment at TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Other groups make up 11% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, and 2% Asian. County-wide, about 73% of residents are White. TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 42%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.2:1 at TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, with 40 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida is higher than this school's figure. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 46%.
Measured against Florida public elementary schools, TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives an A-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 66.8%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 58.0%.
In the county around the school, Brevard County, median household income is about $78,476, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. A total of 113 public schools operate in Brevard County, serving about 73,587 students.
THOMAS JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL is located about 0.7 miles from TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 66.8% is above the 57.5% average for nearby schools.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count declined from 681 to 569.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 MERRITT ISLAND
- MERRITT ISLAND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,446 students
- EDGEWOOD JR/SR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 942 students
- LEWIS CARROLL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 634 students
- ROBERT L. STEVENSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 481 students
- THOMAS JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 481 students
- AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 416 students
Other Tropical Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 1 state are named Tropical Elementary. TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPLANTATION, FL · 791 students
- TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMIAMI, FL · 367 students
Nearby schools
- THOMAS JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 481
- EDGEWOOD JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL1.5 mi · 942
- MILA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 382
- ROCKLEDGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.6 mi · 1,579
- MERRITT ISLAND HIGH SCHOOL2.5 mi · 1,446
- RONALD MCNAIR MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL2.6 mi · 262
Frequently asked questions
About TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 569 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 14.2:1 students per teacher at TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 75% White, 11% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by BREVARD in Brevard County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.