NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools FL

Best-Resourced Schools in Merritt Island, FL

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

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9
Schools
5,412
Students
45.4/100
Avg Resource Index
14.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Merritt Island has more public-school enrollment than 59% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Merritt Island 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

6 of Merritt Island's 9 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.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Merritt Island lists only 9 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 61 to 1,446 students, a 24-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 41%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
72nd percentile
Teacher staffing
55th percentile

Merritt Island High School accounts for 26.7% of all Merritt Island public-school enrollment

That concentration means Merritt Island-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

Merritt Island school enrollment varies 24× across entities

Merritt Island school enrollment ranges from 61 students (lowest) to 1,446 students (highest), a spread of 1,385 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. 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

Merritt Island operates one school district — a single-district system

Merritt Island'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

Merritt Island student-teacher ratio is 14.9:1 — 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 Merritt Island is typically wider than the Merritt Island-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. North/Central Area Alternative Learning Center 74
2. Edgewood Jr/Sr High School 56
3. Robert L. Stevenson Elementary School 49
4. Mila Elementary School 46
5. Audubon Elementary School 42
6. Lewis Carroll Elementary School 41
7. Merritt Island High School 39
8. Tropical Elementary School 32
9. Thomas Jefferson Middle School 30

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Merritt Island

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 Mila Elementary School 70.8/100
  2. 2 North/Central Area Alternative Learning Center 66.7/100
  3. 3 Audubon Elementary School 55.5/100
  4. 4 Edgewood Jr/Sr High School 54.3/100
  5. 5 Thomas Jefferson Middle School 53.6/100

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Which Merritt Island school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

North/Central Area Alternative Learning Center has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Merritt Island schools in this federal-data comparison at 74/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Merritt Island, FL? ▼

Merritt Island has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,412 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.9:1.

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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.