Bayside High School — Palm Bay, Florida

Bayside High School is a Brevard Public Schools campus at 1901 Degroodt Road SW, Palm Bay, FL 32908, serving grades 9 through 12.

The school's district page gives the main office phone as (321) 956-5000 and the fax as 321-877-0960 (Bayside High, Brevard Public Schools). The same page greets visitors with Welcome to Bear Country, the Bears identity also carried by the Bionic Bears Esports team. Bayside High is not a charter: the federal directory lists it as a regular school with Charter: No, NCES school ID 120015003293 and state school ID FL-05-2211 under the Brevard district (NCES school detail, Bayside High).

Degroodt Road in southwest Palm Bay carries more than one public school. Westside Elementary is also on it, at 2175 Degroodt Rd SW, with 984 students in grades PK to 6 in the federal 2024-2025 count, and Southwest Middle School is at 451 Eldron Blvd SE with 997 students in grades 7 and 8 (NCES public school search, Palm Bay). NCES classes the Bayside High setting as City, Midsize. The City of Palm Bay counts three public high schools within the city without naming them (City of Palm Bay new resident information), and the federal directory gives Bayside High both its mailing and physical address on Degroodt Rd SW in Palm Bay.

Bayside High enrolled 2,122 students in the 2024-2025 school year, taught by 95.00 full-time-equivalent classroom teachers, a ratio of 22.34 students per teacher (NCES).

The tenth grade class at Bayside High was the largest in that count at 643, and the senior class the smallest at 438. Boys and girls were close to even: NCES counts 1,072 male and 1,050 female students. By race and ethnicity the Degroodt Road campus counted 969 White, 507 Black, 454 Hispanic, 153 multiracial, 28 Asian, 8 American Indian or Alaska Native and 3 Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander students (NCES school detail).

Household income shows up in the lunch counts. NCES lists 843 Bayside High students eligible for free lunch and 169 for reduced-price lunch, 1,012 in all, with 662 qualifying for free lunch by direct certification through programs such as SNAP. That total is 47.7 percent of enrollment (1,012 divided by 2,122). The state measure is a little higher: the Florida Department of Education school grades file reports Bayside High at 50.6 percent economically disadvantaged and marks it as not a Title I school (FLDOE school grades, Bayside High).

Bayside High earned a B in Florida's 2025-26 school grades, with 61 percent of possible points: 608 points across 10 components (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades, Bayside High).

The state released the file as of September 1, 2026 (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades). For high and combination schools, a B covers 60 to 64 percent of points, so the Bayside High score sat one point above the 60 percent B floor and four points below an A at 65 (FLDOE grading scale). Florida law describes a B as schools making above average progress, and every school must assess at least 95 percent of its eligible students (Florida Statutes s. 1008.34); Bayside High tested 96 percent.

Science is the strongest tested subject at Bayside High at 72, followed by social studies at 68 (FLDOE, Bayside science and social studies). Mathematics is the weak spot: achievement of 40 and learning gains of 43, with 48 for the lowest-performing quarter of students (FLDOE, Bayside ELA and math components). In reading the pattern is flatter, with achievement at 59, learning gains at 58 and the lowest quarter at 59, so learning gains for the lowest quarter of Bayside High readers ran one point above the school-wide learning gains score.

Two of the ten Bayside High components are not test scores. Section 1008.34 adds the 4-year high school graduation rate and a college and career acceleration measure for schools with grades 9 through 12, each worth 100 points (Florida Statutes s. 1008.34). The acceleration measure counts students eligible for college credit through routes such as Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate examinations or dual enrollment courses. Bayside High graduated 91 percent of its 2024-25 cohort and scored 70 on acceleration.

Bayside High has held a B or better in most years since the state began grading schools, with five A grades and a run of C grades from 2022 to 2024 (FLDOE grade history, Bayside High).

The early Bayside High record opens with three C grades from 1999 to 2001, then five straight B grades from 2002 to 2006 (FLDOE, Bayside 1999 to 2007). The best stretch came from 2011 to 2013, three A grades in a row, and the 2015 informational baseline was also an A. The file lists no 2020 column, and the 2021 cell for Bayside High is blank, so those years carry no grade.

The recent turn at Bayside High is the climb out of three C years. The school was graded C in 2022, in the 2023 informational baseline and in 2024, then B in 2025 and again in 2026 (FLDOE, Bayside 2022 to 2026). The state labels the 2023 Bayside High grade an informational baseline, as it did the 2015 A.

Bayside High lists career and technical education classes, career academies, an NJROTC unit, an Esports team called the Bionic Bears, Television Productions and Dual Enrollment or Early College on its Brevard Public Schools page (Bayside High).

The Bayside High NJROTC unit states its purpose as instilling the values of citizenship, service to the U.S., personal responsibility and a sense of accomplishment. Television Productions is described as preparing students for jobs in television or film as writers, camera operators, talent, editors or production crew. The Bayside club list runs from band, chorus and orchestra to debate, Model Student Senate, Future Problem Solvers, math competitions and the Spanish National Honor Society.

Bayside High lists Dual Enrollment and Early College on its counseling menu. Florida law exempts dual enrollment students from registration, tuition and laboratory fees, and early admission lets eligible students enroll full time at a college in courses that count toward the high school diploma (Florida Statutes s. 1007.271). Eastern Florida State College runs a Palm Bay Campus at 250 Community College Pkwy, off Malabar Road by Lake Titan (Eastern Florida State College, Palm Bay Campus).

Bayside High also carries a Purple Star link for military families on its counseling menu. Under Florida's Purple Star Campus program a participating school must designate a staff member as a military liaison, keep a web page of resources for military students and their families, and keep a student-led transition program that helps military students transition into the school (Florida Statutes s. 1003.051). Last verified: October 13, 2026, on the Florida Department of Education website.