Palm Bay Senior High School - Melbourne, Florida/FL

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Palm Bay Senior High School

101 Pirate Lane, Melbourne, FL, 32901-8699 -

tel: (321)952-5900
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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

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

( FL ) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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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%

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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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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% Owning / % Renting

55% / 45%

67% / 33%

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