Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools.
5 public K-12 schools in Satellite Beach from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Satellite Beach has more public-school enrollment than 31% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Satellite Senior High School enrolls 45.8% of Satellite Beach's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.
Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio
3 of Satellite Beach's 5 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.
One district, but meaningful resource variation
Satellite Beach's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 86th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 12-point gap between Delaura Middle School and Satellite Senior High School measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.
City enrollment
Top 69%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
86th percentile
Teacher staffing
49th percentile
Satellite Senior High School accounts for 45.8% of all Satellite Beach public-school enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Satellite Beach a distant remainder — means Satellite Beach-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.
Satellite Beach school enrollment varies 4.7× across entities
Satellite Beach school enrollment ranges from 308 students (lowest) to 1,438 students (highest), a spread of 1,130 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. 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.
Satellite Beach operates one school district — a single-district system
Satellite Beach'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.
Satellite Beach student-teacher ratio is 15.4:1 — 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 Satellite Beach is typically wider than the Satellite Beach-aggregate figure suggests.
Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Satellite Beach
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.
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Which Satellite Beach school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼
Delaura Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Satellite Beach schools in this federal-data comparison at 54/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
How many schools are in Satellite Beach, FL? ▼
Satellite Beach has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,142 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.4:1.
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.
