Palm Bay Senior High School
101 Pirate Lane, Melbourne, FL, 32901-8699 -  Map
tel: (321)952-5900
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School Overview:
Definition of Terms Palm Bay Senior High School
School Level High school
Grades Offered Grades 9 - 12
County Brevard County, FL
Students & Faculty
Total Students 2621 students
% Male / % Female 50%  /  50%
Total Classroom Teachers 133 teachers
Students by Grade
Pre-K - 41 students
Grade 9 - 670 students
Grade 10 - 677 students
Grade 11 - 641 students
Grade 12 - 592 students
This School ( FL ) School Average
Teacher : Student Ratio 1:20 1:16
Students by Ethnicity
This School ( FL ) School Average
% American Indian n/a n/a
% Asian 2% 2%
% Hispanic 12% 22%
% Black 24% 28%
% White 61% 47%
% Unknown 1 % 2%
Additional Student Information
This School ( FL ) School Average
% Eligible for Free Lunch 19% 42%
% Eligible for Reduced Lunch 5% 9%
% Migrant Students Enrolled n/a n/a
School Performance:
( FL ) Statewide Testing Performance
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School District:
School District Name Brevard County School District
This School's Agency ( FL ) District Average
Number of Schools Managed 117 20
Number of Students Managed 82,370 students 12,279 students
District Total Revenue $580,817,000 $110,828,000
District Expenditure $597,936,000 $112,427,000
District Revenue / Student $7,051 $7,795
District Expenditure / Student $7,259 $7,471
District Graduation Rates 95% 81%
School Notes:
  • Palm Bay Senior High School is a public high school located in Melbourne, Florida, several thousand feet north of the boundary of Palm Bay, Florida. It is part of the Brevard County School District.
  • Layout: The campus consists of a small number of "portable" classrooms and several brick-and-mortar buildings, many of which are interconnected by additional upstairs hallways (most of which are uncovered), and most of which have two stories; the campus is not an "indoor" campus, in that all hallways are open to the air and lockers are outdoors.
  • History: The school originally opened as Southwest Junior High School in the 1950s, in an area near the future site of the Florida Institute of Technology and a historically black neighborhood in the southern side of Melbourne. At the time, Stone Middle School was serving as a school for people of color in the area, serving multiple grades. As desegregation progressed, the schools were re-purposed in 1976: Stone became a middle school, and Southwest became Palm Bay Senior High. Southwest Junior High was reconstituted within Palm Bay in 1988.
  • Football: The school is noted for its successful football team, the Palm Bay Pirates, which won the title of "State Champions" in 2000 and 2002. Coincidentally, coach Dan Burke had previously been at the modern-era Southwest Junior High School. The school is also known for being one of the first high schools in the state of Florida to have an artificial football field.
  • Academia: The school is noted for being one of the several "A" schools in the county, for multiple years in a row. During the 2004-2005 school year, it also received a considerable donation, which it used to expand the school library and, within the same building (which was afterwards renamed to reflect the benefactors and law studies-oriented nature of the building), create more classrooms, which were primarily intended for classes in Criminology, law, forensics and other social sciences. The building, like most of the campus, has two stories, and includes rooms modeled after American courtrooms in which some of the school's law classes perform mock trials.
  • Notable alumni: Xavier Carter - Professional Track and Field Athlete.
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School Zip Code:
About This Zip Code (32901)
School Zip (32901) (FL) State Average
Population (Approximate) 22,542 people 15,366,089 people
% (age 25+) w/College Degree 25% 27%
Population Average Age 43 years old 38.7 years old
Average Household size 2.1 persons 2.3 persons
Median Household Income $25,261 $38,451
Avg. # of Rooms in Household 4.4 rooms 5.0 rooms
Median Age of Housing Structure 32 years old 32 years old
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