Dr. W.J. Creel Elementary School

Creel Elementary is a Brevard Public Schools campus on Glenwood Drive in Melbourne, at number 2000, and the school office answers at 321.259.3233.

The contact panel on the Creel website gives the Glenwood Drive address, the 321.259.3233 phone line and a fax number, 321.877.0949 (Dr. W.J. Creel Elementary website). A banner on the home page calls the school a place where students are empowered to SOAR to greatness.

The federal school locator returns one Florida public school for a search on Creel: dr. w.j. creel elementary school, 2000 GLENWOOD DR, MELBOURNE, FL 32935, Brevard County, with 542 students and a grade span listed as PK-7 (NCES school search for Creel). NCES marks the enrollment column as 2024-2025 data and calls the name, address and phone preliminary entries from initial 2025-2026 submissions, so the student count is a year older than the directory details.

In Florida's grade workbook the Glenwood Drive campus is number 6141 within Brevard (district 05), carrying the type code 01 that the legend reserves for elementary schools (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades workbook). The federal grade span of PK-7 and the state elementary type code are both given here as each file prints them, with no ruling between the two.

Creel Elementary in Melbourne received a C for 2025-26, earning 407 points over 8 components, or 51 percent of the points possible.

Row 186 of the state workbook, dated as of September 1, 2026, lists those totals with 96 percent of eligible Creel students tested (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades workbook). Elementary cutoffs, printed in a note above the first row, run: A for 62% of points or greater, B for 54% to 61%, C for 41% to 53%, D for 32% to 40% and F for 31% of points or less. Florida's school grading law attaches a plain-language label to each letter, and for a C that label is satisfactory progress (Section 1008.34, Florida Statutes).

The Creel figures come from columns F through M of its row in the school file (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades workbook), and the Brevard column comes from district row 9 of the 2025-26 district grades workbook, which gave the district an A with 68 percent of possible points (FLDOE 2025-26 district grades workbook).

Achievement lines and learning gains lines measure different things. The grading statute counts achievement as the percentage of eligible students passing the statewide tests, and it counts learning gains separately, including a line for the lowest 25 percent of students in English Language Arts as identified by prior year performance (Section 1008.34). Under that definition, Creel's 69 on the lowest 25 percent reading line is the percentage of eligible students in that group who made Learning Gains, while its 43 on the ELA achievement line is the percentage of eligible students who passed.

Creel's state grade row runs from a C in 1999 through A grades from 2000 to 2013 to a mix of B, C and D grades since, ending with a C for 2026.

The workbook has no column at all for 2020, and Creel's cell under Grade 2021 is empty (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades workbook). Two years carry the label informational baseline in the column headings, 2015 and 2023, which marks them as different from the regular grade years in the state's own file. The workbook prints letters only, so it gives no reason for any rise or fall, and none is offered here.

Creel's grade 3 English Language Arts achievement line was 31 for 2025-26, and that third grade test is also the one Florida uses to decide promotion to grade 4.

The grading statute builds the grade 3 line only for schools whose grade levels include grade 3, as the percentage of eligible students who score achievement level 3 or higher on the statewide grade 3 ELA assessment (Section 1008.34). The 31 in column F of Creel's row is that percentage for the Melbourne campus (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades workbook).

Promotion for Creel third graders uses a lower bar than the grading line. Under the student progression law, a third grader needs a Level 2 or higher on the statewide grade 3 ELA assessment to move to grade 4, and a student whose reading deficiency has not been remedied by the end of grade 3 must be retained unless exempted for good cause (Section 1008.25, Florida Statutes).

The same section spells out what follows for a child who is held back. A retained third grader is to be offered evidence-based, explicit, systematic and multisensory reading instruction, a place in the district's summer reading camp, and a minimum of 90 minutes of daily, uninterrupted reading instruction (Section 1008.25). Parents of a student with a substantial reading deficiency must be notified in writing, and the notice must include a read-at-home plan of strategies the parent can use. Creel's Parents and Students menu links a New World Reading Initiative page and BPS Math at Home Resources, and its Academics menu lists i-Ready and a page on grade-level expectations (Creel Elementary website).

The Creel website lists five programs: beginner strings, intermediate strings, a summer garden club, a summer art club and the Eagle News TV production club.

The program panel places the strings classes under the heading During and afterschool, and it describes Eagle News students as involved in every part of the broadcast (Dr. W.J. Creel Elementary website). The About Us menu links a School Bio, a Title I page, the School Improvement Plan, the School Advisory Council, a School Report Card and a School Data Profile. The Parents and Students menu adds After School, ESOL, Volunteers, a Supply List, Bullying and Harassment, Purple Star, Water Safety and VPK pages, and the Cafeteria menu links School Menus and Prices and a Free and Reduced Lunch Application.

The menus name the clubs but do not post meeting days, sign-up dates or fees for them, so the school office at 321.259.3233 is the place to ask about the next strings or Eagle News openings (Creel Elementary website).

Yes: the 2025-26 state file marks Creel Elementary as a Title I school, not a charter school, with 100 percent of its students counted as economically disadvantaged.

In row 186 the Charter School cell reads NO, the Title I cell reads YES and the economically disadvantaged cell reads 100 (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades workbook). Creel's About Us menu carries a Title I page of its own (Creel Elementary website).

Creel's Parents and Students menu carries a VPK page, and the NCES grade span for the school begins at PK. Under Section 1002.53, a Florida child whose fourth birthday falls on or before September 1 may join the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program that school year or wait until the next, and one of the program choices open to parents is a school-year program run by a public school (Section 1002.53, Florida Statutes). Applications go to the early learning coalition, not to the school, under the same section.

Creel pupils may bring a phone or other wireless device onto campus, yet Section 1006.07 bars elementary and middle school students from using such a device at any point in the school day and leaves the finer rules to each district school board (Section 1006.07, Florida Statutes).

Last verified: October 21, 2026, after the Glenwood Drive school's home page, the NCES Creel search, row 186 and the scale note of the FLDOE school grades workbook, Brevard's row in the district workbook, and Sections 1002.53, 1006.07, 1008.25 and 1008.34 were each fetched again.