Harbor City Elementary School in Melbourne, Florida

Harbor City Elementary School is the Brevard Public Schools elementary on Sarno Road in Melbourne, teaching children from prekindergarten through sixth grade.

The NCES public school search shows harbor city elementary school at 1377 SARNO RD, MELBOURNE, FL 32935, telephone (321) 254-5534, with 389 students in grades PK-6 (NCES school search, Harbor City). Its notes treat the student count as official 2024-2025 data, while directory details such as the street address come from preliminary 2025-2026 submissions.

The school's own site repeats the Sarno Road address and main number and adds a fax, (321) 877-0989 (Harbor City Elementary website). Its About Us menu holds a 2025-2026 School Improvement Plan, a School's Report Card link, a School Bio page and the School Data Profile.

Florida's 2025-26 school grades workbook lists the Sarno Road campus as school 3061 in district 05, Brevard, coded 01 for elementary (FLDOE grades workbook, Harbor City row).

Melbourne's Harbor City Elementary received a B from Florida for 2025-26, with 57 percent of its possible points, following a C in 2025.

In the workbook dated as of September 1, 2026, the Melbourne school totals 453 points from 8 components, and every eligible student was counted as tested, at 100 percent (FLDOE grades workbook, Harbor City row). The elementary scale in the workbook's note puts a B anywhere from 54 to 61 percent of points, with a C below that band at 41 to 53 percent and an A from 62 percent up (FLDOE scale note).

For the Brevard school's 2026 letter, the grading statute's meaning is a school making above average progress, while an A marks excellent progress (Florida Statutes 1008.34).

At the Melbourne school, the learning gains scores, 60 and 63 for reading and math and 59 and 52 for the lowest 25 percent, measure growth, while the achievement scores measure passing rates.

The Melbourne school's passing measures are 60 for third grade English Language Arts, 53 for English Language Arts across tested grades, 51 for mathematics and 55 for science (Harbor City components, FLDOE). Florida counts a student as passing a statewide test at level 3, level 4 or level 5 (Florida Statutes 1008.34).

Growth works differently. Section 1008.34 tells the State Board to credit Learning Gains when students who were below level 3, 4 or 5 in the prior year show growth toward those levels, and it picks the lowest 25 percent in each subject from the previous year's statewide results (Florida Statutes 1008.34). At the Sarno Road school, those growth columns read 60 for reading, 63 for math, 59 for reading in the lowest quarter group and 52 for math in that group (Harbor City components, FLDOE).

The same law limits which numbers count: if a Brevard school has fewer than 10 students with complete data for a component, that component is not used in its grade. Testing has a floor too, since no school may assess under 95 percent of the students eligible for the state tests (Florida Statutes 1008.34).

Harbor City Elementary in Melbourne has moved among A, B and C grades since 1999, with its most recent A in 2012 and B grades in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026.

The FLDOE workbook keeps every letter back to 1999 in one row, marks the 2015 and 2023 grades as informational baselines and shows no grade for the Brevard school in 2021 (Harbor City grade years, FLDOE).

Harbor City Elementary's home page features four programs for Melbourne students: Title 1, music, science and HCTV, a student morning news broadcast.

The school describes Harbor City Television, or HCTV, as the morning news broadcast at Harbor City Elementary, and its music program as one where students feel motivated to learn, become more confident speakers and develop analytical thinking (Harbor City Elementary website). A separate Harbor City Science page sits beside them.

The report card link connects to a state requirement. Section 1008.34 directs the Department of Education to produce a yearly report card for each school, given to parents through the district, that includes the school's grade, student results in social studies, science, mathematics and English Language Arts, school improvement information, an explanation of performance under the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and return on investment indicators (Florida Statutes 1008.34).

Harbor City Elementary holds Title I status, the state puts its economically disadvantaged rate at 100 percent, and its site lists a VPK page for Melbourne's four-year-olds.

The 2025-26 workbook shows YES for Title I, NO for charter and 100 in the economically disadvantaged column for the Brevard school (Harbor City Title I data, FLDOE). On its home page, Harbor City explains Title 1 as a program that provides supplemental funds to school districts with high percentages of children from low-income families to help all children meet challenging state standards, and its Title 1 menu posts a Title 1 Program Evaluation FY26 (Harbor City Elementary website).

The Melbourne school's VPK page fits Florida's Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program, open to any Florida child who will be 4 years old by September 1, either during that school year or a year later; a school-year program run at a public school is one of the formats the law lists, alongside private providers and a summer program (Florida Statutes 1002.53). A child stays eligible until admitted to kindergarten, unless the child will be 6 by February 1 of a school year.

Last verified: October 21, 2026, when row 155 and the grading note of the FLDOE 2025-26 workbook, the NCES search entry for the Melbourne school, the Harbor City Elementary website and Florida Statutes 1002.53 and 1008.34 were all fetched once more.