Heritage High School — Palm Bay, Florida

Heritage High School is at 2351 Malabar Rd NW, Palm Bay, FL 32907, a Brevard Public Schools campus on Malabar Road whose main line is (321) 722-4178.

The school page lists that Malabar Rd NW address and phone, and its welcome banner reads Home of the Panthers (Heritage High, Brevard Public Schools). NCES repeats that street address as both mailing and physical location, describes Heritage as a regular, non-charter district school with Open status, and puts its Palm Bay locale in the City, Midsize category (NCES school detail, Heritage).

Each data set that grades or counts the Palm Bay school uses its own number. NCES assigns School ID 120015007530 and the state assigns FL-05-2311, which matches school number 2311 in the Florida Department of Education grades file (NCES school detail, Heritage). The City of Palm Bay tells new residents that the city has three high schools, alongside eleven public elementary schools and three middle schools (City of Palm Bay new resident information).

One state emergency document writes the address differently. The 2020 Statewide Emergency Shelter Plan for Brevard County lists the Heritage HS buildings at 2353 W Malabar Rd, Palm Bay 32907 (2020 Statewide Emergency Shelter Plan, Brevard). This page uses the 2351 Malabar Rd NW address that the school and NCES both publish.

Heritage High in Palm Bay enrolled 1,960 students in grades 9 through 12 in the 2024-2025 school year, taught by 87.00 full-time-equivalent classroom teachers, a ratio of 22.53 students per teacher.

The source is the federal Common Core of Data: its enrollment and teacher figures for the Malabar Road school are final numbers for 2024-2025, while name, address and phone are early 2025-2026 directory submissions (NCES school detail, Heritage).

Tenth grade was the biggest Heritage class in the federal count with 560 students, 83 more than the ninth grade and 126 more than the senior class of 434. NCES splits the Malabar Road enrollment into 1,022 male and 938 female students.

By race and ethnicity, NCES counted 684 White, 587 Black, 479 Hispanic and 173 multiracial students at Heritage, along with 27 Asian, 6 Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander and 4 American Indian or Alaska Native students (NCES school detail, Heritage). No single group formed a majority of the Palm Bay school: the largest, 684 White students, was about 35 percent of 1,960 (684 divided by 1,960).

Heritage High earned a B in Florida's 2025-26 school grades, released as of September 1, 2026, with 641 points across 10 components, or 64 percent of the possible total, for the Palm Bay school.

Ninety-six percent of eligible Heritage students sat the state tests that year (FLDOE 2025-26, Heritage row). Florida grades high and combination schools on their own scale, set out in the spreadsheet header: A=65% of points or greater; B=60% to 64% of points; C=45% to 59% of points (FLDOE grading scale note). At 64 percent, the Malabar Road campus finished at the top of the B band.

Science was the strongest Heritage achievement score at 81, and social studies added 69 (FLDOE components, Heritage). Mathematics pulled the other way: achievement of 39 and learning gains of 41 were the two lowest scores in the Palm Bay school's row, though gains among the lowest-performing quarter of math students reached 63. Florida law sets out why a high school row carries two components an elementary row does not: for grades 9 through 12, the statute lists the 4-year high school graduation rate of the school as defined by state board rule, and the share of students eligible for college and career credit (Florida Statutes s. 1008.34). Heritage posted 94 and 68 on those two measures for 2024-25.

Heritage High's first state grade in the FLDOE file is a B for 2010, and the Palm Bay school has since earned A grades in 2013 and 2014 and a B in every graded year since 2024.

The grade columns in the 2025-26 state file stop at 2010 for Heritage, with nothing recorded for earlier years (FLDOE grade history, Heritage). That fits the building dates in the state shelter plan, which gives 2009 as the year built for each listed Heritage HS building on Malabar Road (2020 Statewide Emergency Shelter Plan, Brevard).

After a C in 2011 and a B in 2012, Heritage earned back-to-back A grades in 2013 and 2014. Every graded year from the 2015 informational baseline through 2019 was a B. Heritage has no entry for 2020 or 2021 in the spreadsheet; the Palm Bay campus was rated C for 2022 and again in the 2023 informational baseline, and has been rated B for 2024, 2025 and 2026 (FLDOE 2025-26, Heritage row). No cause for any rise or fall appears in the spreadsheet, so none is suggested here.

Heritage High lists fourteen academic programs on its Palm Bay site, from Army JROTC and Cambridge to Automotive Maintenance and Light Repair, plus band, chorus, musical theatre, orchestra, student government and WPNN.

The full academic menu on the Heritage page reads: Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Army JROTC, Automotive Maintenance and Light Repair, Cambridge, Digital Media and Multimedia Design, Dual Enrollment, Entrepreneurship, Environmental Water and Reclamation Technology, Exercise Science, Game Simulation, Animation and Programming, Journalism, Media Center, Medical Administrative Specialist and Technical Design (Heritage High programs).

Three Heritage programs get a fuller description. Panther Automotive students take automotive classes to learn how to become mechanics, and the school says several were working internships with car dealerships. Sports Medicine classes focus on exercise science, covering the functions of the body, first aid, CPR and athletic training. Through Cambridge, Heritage students can earn college credits, and the school notes the Cambridge diploma option as a route to Bright Futures (Heritage High, Why Heritage).

The Heritage clubs list names Band, Chorus, Musical Theatre, Orchestra, the Student Government Association and WPNN, with Athletics on its own menu. The Palm Bay school's counseling menu lists Graduation Requirements, FLVS/BVS, Scholarships and Financial Aid, and Bright Futures and Volunteer Opportunities, and its parent pages include Purple Star resources for military families.

Public records show Heritage High in Palm Bay is not a Title I school, counts 58.1 percent of students as economically disadvantaged, and has buildings listed in Florida's statewide emergency shelter plan.

The 2025-26 state file marks Heritage as a high school (type 03), not Title I, with 58.1 percent economically disadvantaged students (FLDOE Title I and economic status, Heritage). NCES counted 950 Heritage students eligible for free lunch and 180 for reduced-price lunch in 2024-2025, 1,130 in all, or about 57.7 percent of 1,960 (1,130 divided by 1,960) (NCES school detail, Heritage). Economic disadvantage in the state file and lunch eligibility in the federal file are separate yardsticks, which is why both Heritage numbers appear here unmerged.

The 2020 Statewide Emergency Shelter Plan lists six Heritage HS buildings as shelter space, each marked A, the plan's code for as-is rather than retrofit (2020 Statewide Emergency Shelter Plan, Brevard). The gym carries the largest figure, 1,014 spaces, and the auditorium 795, with classroom buildings between 730 and 1,013. That plan dates from 2020.

Contact details for the Malabar Road campus come from the Heritage page: 2351 Malabar Rd NW, Palm Bay, FL 32907, (321) 722-4178. Last verified: October 13, 2026, against the Heritage High school page, the NCES directory and the FLDOE grades file.