Brevard Public Schools — Brevard County, Florida

Brevard Public Schools is the one public school district for all of Brevard County, run from 2700 Judge Fran Jamieson Way in Viera and reporting 71,675 students, 100 schools and 9,587 employees (Brevard Public Schools).

The two counts come from different years and different definitions, so they are shown side by side rather than reconciled. The National Center for Education Statistics lists Brevard as a regular local school district, NCES ID 1200150 and state district FL-05, spanning prekindergarten through grade 12, with a Suburban, Large locale and the Viera address on Judge Fran Jamieson Way (NCES district detail). The district office phone is 321-633-1000.

The NCES staffing detail for Brevard Public Schools in 2024-2025 goes beyond teachers. It lists 841.69 instructional aides, 174.01 guidance counselors, 30.80 school psychologists, 86.00 librarians and media specialists, 228.05 school administrators and 56.00 district administrators, out of 8,955.93 total staff (NCES district detail). Palm Bay Magnet Senior High School, by comparison, reported 71.50 classroom teachers and a ratio of 19.01 students per teacher (NCES school detail).

District meetings announced on the Brevard Public Schools home page are held in the Educational Services Facility Boardroom, and the same page lists Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) classrooms among its programs (Brevard Public Schools).

Brevard Public Schools earned an A district grade from the Florida Department of Education in 2026, its third consecutive A, after B grades in 2022 and the 2023 informational baseline (FDOE 2025-26 District Grades).

The state's 2025-26 district grades file shows Brevard with 810 total points across 12 components, 68 percent of possible points, and 98 percent of students tested; a district needs 65 percent for an A (FDOE District Grades). Its graduation component for 2024-25 was 93, while Brevard Public Schools describes a 92.7% graduation rate on its home page.

Within that grade, Brevard Public Schools reports that 17 schools improved their school grade in 2026, four of them by two full letter grades, and that 79% of its schools now earn an A or B (Brevard Public Schools). The district grade is a single number for the whole county; school grades in Palm Bay and Melbourne vary more, as the South Brevard section below shows.

The component scores behind the Brevard Public Schools grade show where the points came from. In the 2025-26 district file, Brevard scored 65 in English Language Arts achievement, 63 in mathematics achievement, 67 in science achievement and 76 in social studies achievement, with 77 for middle school acceleration and 75 for college and career acceleration, the latter a 2024-25 measure (FDOE District Grades). Learning gains were lower: 62 for English Language Arts, 59 for mathematics, and 55 and 53 for the lowest-performing quarter of students in those two subjects.

Brevard Public Schools is governed by an elected School Board whose members represent five districts, numbered 1 through 5 on the district's School Board pages (Brevard Public Schools).

The Brevard County Supervisor of Elections lists School Board District 1, District 2 and District 5 among the offices on the 2026 election cycle (2026 Candidates).

The Brevard Public Schools board's taxing power runs through elections as well as budgets. Under subsection (2) of section 1011.73, a district school board may levy a millage by resolution only with approval by a majority of the county's voters in a referendum, and a millage so authorized runs for not more than 4 years (Florida Statutes s. 1011.73). The Brevard teacher-pay renewal on the 2026 ballot is written for four years, matching that 4-year limit. The Brevard County Tax Collector's list of taxing authorities names two school entries, BPS Voted Teacher Pay and School: by local board, by state law, by capital outlay, both with the district phone 321-633-1000 (Brevard County Tax Collector).

The November 3, 2026 Brevard County ballot carries two School Board referenda: a four-year renewal of the 1 mill teacher and staff pay levy and a ten-year renewal of the half-cent school sales surtax (Brevard County Supervisor of Elections).

Both Brevard Public Schools measures promise review of all spending by an independent citizens oversight committee, and both share revenue with charter schools based on their proportionate share of district enrollment, as the ballot text posted by the Brevard County Supervisor of Elections states (2026 Amendments and Referenda). Florida law caps a school capital outlay surtax at 0.5 percent and requires that its revenue be shared with eligible charter schools (Florida Statutes s. 212.055).

Amendment 3 matters to Brevard Public Schools mostly by what it leaves out: its larger homestead exemption applies to all non-school taxes, so the school levies on a Palm Bay or Viera bill are not reduced by it (Brevard County Supervisor of Elections). The same ballot page lists the last day to request a mail ballot for the general election as Thursday, October 22 by 5:00 p.m.

NCES reports total Brevard Public Schools revenue of $1,006,623,000 for 2022-2023, or $13,580 per student, with 46% from local sources, 35% from the state and 18% from federal funds (NCES district detail).

Local money is the largest of the three shares, and two of its Brevard Public Schools sources are the voted teacher-pay millage and the half-cent surtax now up for renewal. The district ties the two voted sources to specific work on its home page: millage funding pays for STEM learning in classrooms, and surtax funding has paid for roof, HVAC, electrical and plumbing renewal, with West Melbourne School for Science shown as an example (Brevard Public Schools).

The Brevard Public Schools high schools with Palm Bay addresses are Bayside High School on Degroodt Rd SW and Heritage High School on Malabar Rd NW, while Palm Bay Magnet Senior High School carries a 101 Pirate Ln, Melbourne address (NCES).

The 2026 grades come from the state's school grades workbook: Bayside High earned a B with 61 percent of points (FDOE, Bayside row), Heritage High a B with 64 percent (FDOE, Heritage row), Palm Bay Magnet Senior High a C with 56 percent (FDOE, Palm Bay Magnet row) and Melbourne Senior High an A with 66 percent (FDOE, Melbourne High row). NCES lists Palm Bay Magnet at 101 Pirate Ln, Melbourne 32901, serving grades 8 through 12 (NCES school detail).

The NCES search for Palm Bay also returns district elementary schools such as Palm Bay Elementary at 1200 Alamanda Rd NE, Columbia Elementary at 1225 Waco Blvd SE and Jupiter Elementary at 950 Tupelo Rd SW, which had 856 students in 2024-2025, alongside charter schools including Odyssey Charter School on Eldron Blvd SE with 1,917 students and Pineapple Cove Classical Academy on Minton Rd NW with 1,065 (NCES Palm Bay search). Career programs on the Palm Bay campuses include the electrical CTE program at Heritage High School and the machining CTE program at Bayside High School, both featured by Brevard Public Schools (Brevard Public Schools).