UNIVERSITY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in MELBOURNE, Florida, UNIVERSITY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack primary school, run under BREVARD. It enrolls 529 students across grades pre-K through 6.

Across the 109 schools in BREVARD (73,587 students total), UNIVERSITY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, UNIVERSITY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 40% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 37% White, 12% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 10% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 76% of students at UNIVERSITY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Brevard County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, UNIVERSITY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.9%; this one delivers 31.8%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Brevard County) reports that 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), UNIVERSITY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, around 1.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around UNIVERSITY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, UNIVERSITY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.0%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at UNIVERSITY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has increased 3%, going from 513 students in 2018 to 529 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 44% to 37% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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