Discovery Elementary — Palm Bay, Florida

Discovery Elementary is a Brevard Public Schools elementary at 1275 Glendale Avenue NW, Palm Bay, FL 32907, teaching prekindergarten through sixth grade.

Brevard Public Schools lists the Discovery Elementary office phone as 321-951-4920 and the fax as 321-877-0999 (Discovery Elementary, Brevard Public Schools). The federal school directory gives the same Glendale Ave NW address for mailing and physical location, a grade span of PK to 6, NCES ID 120015002591 and state school ID FL-05-2151, and records it as a regular public school, not a charter (NCES school detail, Discovery Elementary).

Glendale Avenue sits in the 32907 ZIP code of northwest Palm Bay, which Discovery Elementary shares with several other district elementaries. Christa McAuliffe Elementary, for one, is at 155 Del Mundo St NW, Palm Bay, FL 32907, with 687 students in grades PK to 6 in the 2024-2025 count (NCES public school search, Palm Bay). The City of Palm Bay counts eleven public elementary schools in the city on its new resident page (City of Palm Bay new resident information).

Discovery Elementary enrolled 679 students in 2024-2025, with 49.00 full-time-equivalent classroom teachers and a ratio of 13.86 students per teacher, according to NCES (NCES).

Third grade was the biggest class on Glendale Avenue that year at 115 students, and the prekindergarten group the smallest at 48. NCES counts 359 boys and 320 girls at Discovery Elementary. By race and ethnicity it lists 246 White, 208 Black, 163 Hispanic, 56 multiracial, 4 Asian, 1 American Indian or Alaska Native and 1 Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander student.

Discovery Elementary is a Title I school. NCES records 412 students eligible for free lunch and 44 for reduced-price lunch, 456 in total, and all 412 free-lunch students qualified by direct certification (NCES school detail). The Florida Department of Education school grades file marks Discovery Elementary as Title I and reports it at 100 percent economically disadvantaged (FLDOE school grades, Discovery Elementary). The school's own menu carries a Discovery Title I page (Discovery Elementary school information).

Florida graded Discovery Elementary a B for 2025-26, its first grade above C since 2012, with 454 points over 8 components, or 57 percent of possible points (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades, Discovery Elementary).

The state posted the grades as of September 1, 2026 (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades). Elementary schools use their own scale: a B runs from 54 to 61 percent of points and a C from 41 to 53, so Discovery Elementary cleared the B line by three points (FLDOE grading scale). Discovery tested 100 percent of its eligible students; Florida law requires at least 95 percent and defines a B as schools making above average progress (Florida Statutes s. 1008.34).

Growth carried the Discovery Elementary grade more than raw scores did. Math learning gains reached 70 and reading learning gains 61, while achievement sat at 54 in both subjects (FLDOE, Discovery components). Learning gains for the lowest quarter of Discovery readers were 63, higher than the school-wide reading gains. Section 1008.34 counts that group separately: the percentage of eligible students in the lowest 25 percent, identified by prior year performance, who make learning gains (Florida Statutes s. 1008.34).

The weakest Discovery Elementary components were science at 47 and third grade reading at 49. Both sit below the 57 percent the school earned across all eight measures, and they are the only two Discovery Elementary components under 50.

Discovery Elementary was an A school for ten straight years from 2002 to 2011, then fell to B in 2012 and to C in 2013, and stayed at C in every graded year until the 2026 B (FLDOE grade history, Discovery Elementary).

Counting from the first year in the file, Discovery Elementary holds eleven A grades: 2000 and the ten years from 2002 through 2011. The C stretch that followed covered 2013 through 2019 (FLDOE, Discovery 2013 to 2019) and then 2022 through 2025, eleven graded years in a row. The file has no 2020 column and a blank 2021 cell for Discovery Elementary, so the run skips those years rather than ending in them.

Discovery Elementary ranks sixth of the eleven Palm Bay public elementaries on 2026 percent of points, at 57, between Westside Elementary at 58 and Columbia Elementary at 56 in the FLDOE file.

Riviera Elementary led the Palm Bay elementaries with 72 percent and an A (FLDOE, Riviera), and Port Malabar Elementary also earned an A at 65 (FLDOE, Port Malabar). Nearby Christa McAuliffe Elementary on Del Mundo St NW earned a B at 61 (FLDOE, Christa McAuliffe). Lockmar Elementary at 53 (FLDOE, Lockmar) and John F. Turner Sr. Elementary at 52 (FLDOE, Turner) were the two graded C.

The middle of the Palm Bay table is tight: Sunrise (FLDOE, Sunrise), Westside (FLDOE, Westside), Discovery, Columbia (FLDOE, Columbia), Jupiter (FLDOE, Jupiter) and Palm Bay Elementary (FLDOE, Palm Bay Elementary) all earned a B within five points of each other, from 59 down to 54.

Addresses spread these Palm Bay elementaries across the city. John F. Turner Sr. Elementary is at 3175 Jupiter Boulevard SE (NCES, Palm Bay page 1) and Port Malabar Elementary at 301 Pioneer Ave NE (NCES, Palm Bay page 2). The 32907 ZIP code that holds Discovery Elementary also holds two charter campuses outside the district-run list: Pineapple Cove Classical Academy at 6162 Minton Road NW (NCES) and its Lockmar campus at 720 Emerson Drive NE (NCES).

The Discovery Elementary B for 2026 matched the grade of the two Palm Bay high schools with city addresses: Bayside High on Degroodt Road scored 61 percent (FLDOE, Bayside High) and Heritage High 64 percent (FLDOE, Heritage High). Palm Bay Magnet High earned a C at 56 (FLDOE, Palm Bay Magnet).

Discovery Elementary runs a Before and After School Program for kindergarten through sixth grade, a weekly gifted pull-out, a Student Congress, and orchestra and chorus, according to its Brevard Public Schools page (Discovery Elementary).

Gifted students at Discovery Elementary leave their regular classroom once a week from 9am to 1pm for enrichment in their area of giftedness. In Student Congress, each fourth, fifth and sixth grade class sends 2 representatives to meet with the principal once a month. The Before and After School Program, known as BAS, covers kindergarten through sixth grade on the Glendale Avenue campus.

The Discovery Elementary site menus also list a VPK page, a Purple Star page, an Aftercare page, a School Advisory Council and clubs including the Art Club, the Green Dolphins Environmental Club, Safety Patrol and STEM (Discovery Elementary school information). Last verified: October 13, 2026, on the Brevard Public Schools website.