Cocoa Beach Jr/Sr High School

Cocoa Beach Junior/Senior High School is a Brevard Public Schools campus at 1500 Minutemen Causeway, Cocoa Beach, FL 32931, with a main line of (321) 783-1776.

The federal Common Core of Data record lists the school as a regular, non-charter public school in the Brevard district, NCES school ID 120015000127 and state school ID FL-05-5011, at 1500 Minutemen Cswy in Cocoa Beach, phone (321) 783-1776 (NCES school record). The Brevard Public Schools page for the school gives the same Minutemen Causeway address and phone number and adds a fax line, 321.877.0901 (Cocoa Beach Jr/Sr High, Brevard Public Schools). The state uses the four-digit school number 5011 for Cocoa Beach Junior/Senior High School in its school grade file (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades).

The campus shares Minutemen Causeway with Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School, which NCES lists at 1400 Minutemen Cswy in Cocoa Beach (NCES Cocoa Beach school search).

Cocoa Beach Jr/Sr High serves grades 7 through 12 and enrolled 1,049 students in the 2024-2025 school year, taught by 53 full-time-equivalent classroom teachers.

The NCES record puts the Cocoa Beach student to teacher ratio at 19.79 and counts 571 male and 478 female students (NCES school record).

By the federal count, 229 Cocoa Beach Jr/Sr High students were eligible for free lunch and 47 for reduced-price lunch, and NCES gives the free and reduced-price lunch eligible total as 276 (NCES school record). The state's school grade file reports a separate figure, 25.8 percent of students economically disadvantaged (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades). By race and ethnicity NCES lists 765 White, 151 Hispanic, 71 multiracial, 35 Black, 22 Asian, 3 American Indian or Alaska Native and 2 Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander students at the Cocoa Beach campus.

Cocoa Beach Junior/Senior High earned an A for 2025-26, with 72 percent of possible points against a 65 percent A cutoff for combination schools.

The Florida Department of Education file of 2025-26 school grades, dated September 1, 2026, scores Cocoa Beach Junior/Senior High School as school type 04, a combination school, with 795 points across 11 components and 97 percent of students tested (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades). The file lists the school's percent of total possible points as 72. The same file sets the scale for high and combination schools at A for 65 percent of points or greater, B for 60 to 64 percent, C for 45 to 59 percent, D for 35 to 44 percent and F for 34 percent or less (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades).

The record is long. The FLDOE file shows an A for Cocoa Beach Junior/Senior High in every graded year from 2000 through 2026 except 2010, when the school earned a B, and the column for 2021 is blank (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades). In 2025-26 the file scores mathematics learning gains and mathematics learning gains of the lowest 25 percent at 50 each, and the school's About Us page links its School Improvement Plan (Cocoa Beach Jr/Sr High About Us).

The Cocoa Beach Jr/Sr High website lists an International Baccalaureate Programme, Dual Enrollment, Career and Technical Education, JROTC and an Alternative Computer Education lab under Academics.

The Academics menu on the Brevard Public Schools page for Cocoa Beach Jr/Sr High names IB (International Baccalaureate Programme), Dual Enrollment, CTE (Career and Technical Education), JROTC (Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps) and the ACE (Alternative Computer Education) Lab, plus separate SY 25-26 middle school and high school instructional handbooks (Cocoa Beach Jr/Sr High About Us). The About Us menu links the School Improvement Plan, a CBHS Profile, the bell schedule, the School Report Card and a School Data Profile, and the Parents and Students menu adds School Counseling, FOCUS, the School Advisory Council and a Water Safety page.

In the FLDOE grade file, the Cocoa Beach school posted 81 in college and career acceleration for 2024-25 and 87 in middle school acceleration (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades), next to a 98 for the 2024-25 graduation rate. The pages cited here do not list program entry rules or course lists; the Academics menu links the SY 25-26 instructional handbooks, and the school's main line is (321) 783-1776 (Cocoa Beach Jr/Sr High About Us).

Yes: the Florida Department of Education lists Cocoa Beach Jr/Sr High School in its Purple Star School of Distinction cohort for 2025-2028.

The FLDOE list for 2025-2028 includes the Brevard County entry Cocoa Beach Jr/Sr High School, type District (FLDOE Purple Star 2025-2028 list). The state says schools keep the Purple Star designation for three school years and that the program recognizes schools that support the unique needs of military families and help military-connected students when moving to a new school environment (FLDOE Purple Star program page). The Cocoa Beach school's own site carries a Military Family Resources (Purple Star Program) page under Parents and Students (Cocoa Beach Jr/Sr High About Us).

Besides Cocoa Beach Jr/Sr High, the NCES search for Cocoa Beach lists Theodore Roosevelt Elementary, Freedom 7 Elementary School of International Studies and a Project Search program.

The NCES search for Cocoa Beach returns four records. Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School at 1400 Minutemen Cswy enrolls 275 students in pre-kindergarten through grade 6, Freedom 7 Elementary School of International Studies at 400 S 4th St enrolls 408 students in kindergarten through grade 6, and Project Search at 701 W Cocoa Causeway lists 19 students in grade 12 (NCES Cocoa Beach school search). Both Cocoa Beach elementary schools list grades ending at 6, and NCES lists Cocoa Beach Jr/Sr High at grades 7 to 12.

Both Cocoa Beach elementary schools also earned an A in the 2025-26 state grades: Roosevelt with 73 percent of possible points and Freedom 7 with 88 percent (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades).

The City of Cocoa Beach says Cocoa Beach Junior Senior High School was constructed in 1963 on land dredged and filled for that purpose.

The city's History at a Glance timeline lists the school's 1963 construction on dredged and filled land, and notes that the city's Recreation Complex was also placed on a dredged and filled area, built in 1966 with a golf course added in 1968 (Cocoa Beach History at a Glance). The same Cocoa Beach timeline says more than 75,000 people came to Cocoa Beach in 1962 to see Friendship 7, with John Glenn, orbit the Earth, and it records the city's population at 9,442 residents in 1970 and 12,000 in 1975.

Last verified: October 21, 2026, by re-reading the NCES record and Cocoa Beach school search, the Brevard Public Schools page for the Minutemen Causeway campus, FLDOE's 2025-26 grade file and Purple Star pages, and the Cocoa Beach history timeline.