Croton Elementary School in Melbourne, Florida

Croton Elementary School, at 1449 Croton Road in Melbourne, is the Brevard Public Schools elementary that teaches prekindergarten through sixth grade on that road.

The NCES search lists croton elementary school at 1449 CROTON RD, MELBOURNE, FL 32935, phone (321) 259-3818, with 464 students in grades PK-6, the enrollment coming from official 2024-2025 data (NCES public school search, Croton). The school's site confirms the address and number and adds a fax, 321-877-0976 (Croton Elementary website).

Students are the Croton Cardinals, and the Melbourne home page spells out a LEAD motto built on leading oneself, encouraging others, achieving together and developing one's best self. The school posts its current newsletter in English, Spanish and Portuguese versions (Croton Elementary website).

The 2025-26 state grades workbook carries the Croton Road campus as school 3091 in district 05, Brevard, with the elementary type code, 01 (FLDOE 2025-26 workbook, Croton row).

Croton Elementary in Melbourne earned an A for 2025-26 with 66 percent of possible points, after a C for 2025.

Florida's workbook, as of September 1, 2026, gives the Brevard school 528 points from 8 components and a tested rate of 99 percent (FLDOE 2025-26 workbook, Croton row). The elementary scale in the workbook's note assigns an A from 62 percent of points upward, a B from 54 to 61 percent and a C from 41 to 53 percent (FLDOE elementary scale note).

Croton tested 99 percent of its eligible students, and section 1008.34 sets 95 percent as the minimum every graded school must assess. A component also drops out of a Brevard school's calculation whenever under 10 students have complete results for it (Fla. Stat. 1008.34).

Section 1008.34 equates an A with excellent progress. The Melbourne school's A also brings in the statute's budget clause, under which an A school may be given wider control over spending its FEFP, state categorical, lottery, grant and local money (Fla. Stat. 1008.34).

The Melbourne school's 2025-26 results are 63 for reading achievement, 67 for math achievement and 68 for science, with learning gains of 74 in reading and 72 in math and a third grade reading score of 51.

All of these numbers are percentages of eligible students at the Melbourne school (Croton component results, FLDOE). Achievement columns count students who passed the statewide test in the subject, which Florida law defines as scoring level 3, level 4 or level 5 (Fla. Stat. 1008.34).

The learning gains columns, 74 for reading and 72 for math at Croton, count growth instead. Under section 1008.34, students below level 3, 4 or 5 in the prior year earn a gain by growing toward those levels, and the separate lowest 25 percent columns, 68 in reading and 65 in math for this Brevard school, cover students identified by the prior year's state test results (Croton component results, FLDOE).

The grade 3 English Language Arts column, 51 at Melbourne's Croton, appears only for schools serving third grade and is limited to eligible third graders who reached level 3 or above on the state reading assessment for that grade (Fla. Stat. 1008.34). The school's Parents and Students menu also links a FAST Assessment Information for Families page (Croton Elementary website).

Croton Elementary in Melbourne earned an A every year from 2003 through 2012, mixed B and C grades from 2013 through 2023, an A in 2024, a C in 2025 and an A in 2026.

The workbook row for the Brevard school lists letters back to 1999, labels the 2015 and 2023 letters informational baseline grades and has no letter for 2021 (Croton grades by year, FLDOE).

Comparing years at the Melbourne school calls for care, because the scale itself can change. Section 1008.34 has the State Board review each year how many schools earned an A or B, and if A and B schools make up at least 75 percent of one school type, the minimum percentage for every letter rises for the next year, reset to the next highest percentage ending in 5 or 0 (Fla. Stat. 1008.34).

Croton Elementary offers Destination Space for sixth graders, a science fair, safety patrols and a music program with chorus and strings, according to its Melbourne website.

The school says its 5th graders spend four weeks learning in a different setting at Brevard Zoo, with added resources and hands-on activities, and that each year its 6th graders are introduced to space exploration through Destination Space, with classroom learning built around STEM education (Croton Elementary website). In the science fair, students choose topics, test hypotheses with their own experiments and share the results.

Under PBIS, the Brevard school teaches expected behaviors and promotes school-wide rewards, and students spend Croton tickets at a school store that the site asks families to help restock (Croton Elementary website).

Croton Elementary is a Title I school with an economically disadvantaged rate of 99.1 percent, and its Melbourne website offers a Title I Parent Resource Area, weekly parent lunch and pages for military families and VPK.

The state workbook marks the Brevard school YES for Title I and NO for charter, with 99.1 in the economically disadvantaged column (Croton Title I entry, FLDOE). On its site, Croton says its Title I program has a Parent Resource Area where families can check out reading and math materials to use at home, that parent lunch is held every Friday, and that a canceled parent lunch will appear on the school website calendar (Croton Elementary website). A Title 1 Annual Meeting page, a Military Families page and a VPK page sit under Parents and Students.

The Melbourne school also promotes New World's Reading, which it describes as Florida's free home literacy program for eligible VPK through 5th grade students (Croton Elementary website). Section 1003.485 names the University of Florida Lastinger Center for Learning as administrator of the initiative, and once an eligible student is identified, monthly book delivery must begin by October and run through at least June (Fla. Stat. 1003.485).

Last verified: October 21, 2026, through a same-day pass over the Melbourne school's row 157 and the grading scale note in FLDOE's 2025-26 school grades file, the NCES search result for Croton, the Croton Road school's website and Florida Statutes 1003.485 and 1008.34.