NCES CCD 2024-25 19 schools FL

Best-Resourced Schools in Melbourne, FL

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19 public K-12 schools in Melbourne from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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19
Schools
13,397
Students
42.4/100
Avg Resource Index
15.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Melbourne has more public-school enrollment than 87% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Melbourne sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

15 of Melbourne's 19 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 38-point gap between South Area Alternative Learning Center and University Park Elementary School shows the range hidden by Melbourne's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 13%
School count
Top 16%
Resource Index average
57th percentile
Teacher staffing
53rd percentile

Melbourne Senior High School accounts for 16.5% of all Melbourne public-school enrollment

That concentration means Melbourne-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Melbourne school enrollment varies 170× across entities

Melbourne school enrollment ranges from 13 students (lowest) to 2,210 students (highest), a spread of 2,197 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Melbourne operates one school district — a single-district system

Melbourne's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Melbourne student-teacher ratio is 15.1:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Melbourne is typically wider than the Melbourne-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. South Area Alternative Learning Center 66
2. West Shore Junior/Senior High School 53
3. Melbourne Center for Personal Growth 52
4. Longleaf Elementary School 50
5. Quest Elementary School 45
6. Viera Elementary School 44
7. Sherwood Elementary School 44
8. Suntree Elementary School 43
9. Stone Magnet Middle School 43
10. Dr. W.J. Creel Elementary School 43
11. Sabal Elementary School 43
12. Harbor City Elementary School 39
13. Eau Gallie High School 38
14. Lyndon B. Johnson Middle School 37
15. Palm Bay Magnet Senior High School 35
16. Roy Allen Elementary School 35
17. Croton Elementary School 35
18. Melbourne Senior High School 33
19. University Park Elementary School 28

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Melbourne

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Palm Bay Magnet Senior High School 72.0/100
  2. 2 South Area Alternative Learning Center 71.1/100
  3. 3 Stone Magnet Middle School 70.2/100
  4. 4 Dr. W.J. Creel Elementary School 69.2/100
  5. 5 University Park Elementary School 67.7/100

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Which Melbourne school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

South Area Alternative Learning Center has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Melbourne schools in this federal-data comparison at 66/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Melbourne, FL? ▼

Melbourne has 19 public schools with a total enrollment of 13,397 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.1:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.