High Schools — Palm Bay, Florida

Three Brevard Public Schools high schools serve Palm Bay: Bayside High and Heritage High with Palm Bay addresses, and Palm Bay Magnet High, which carries a Melbourne mailing address at 101 Pirate Lane.

The City of Palm Bay's new resident page counts eleven public elementary schools, three middle schools, three high schools and three charter schools in Palm Bay, without naming them (City of Palm Bay new resident information). Bayside High lists its campus at 1901 Degroodt Road SW, Palm Bay, FL 32908 (Bayside High), in the southwest part of the city. Heritage High is at 2351 Malabar Rd NW, Palm Bay, FL 32907 (Heritage High), on Malabar Road in northwest Palm Bay.

Palm Bay Magnet High is the school with Palm Bay in its name but not in its address. Its own page lists 101 Pirate Lane, Melbourne, FL 32901 (Palm Bay Magnet High), and the federal school directory also places it in Melbourne (NCES school search, Palm Bay Magnet). This page does not claim the campus sits inside Palm Bay city limits; the mailing address is Melbourne, and the school is the third Brevard Public Schools high school that carries Palm Bay in its name or address.

Bayside High is the largest of the Palm Bay high schools with 2,122 students, followed by Heritage High with 1,960 and Palm Bay Magnet High with 1,359, in federal 2024-2025 membership data.

The National Center for Education Statistics school search lists bayside high school at 1901 Degroodt Rd SW in Palm Bay with 2,122 students in grades 9 to 12 (NCES school search, Bayside). It lists heritage high school at 2351 Malabar Rd NW with 1,960 students in grades 9 to 12 (NCES school search, Heritage). NCES notes that its membership and staffing counts come from the official school level data for 2024-2025, while names and addresses are preliminary 2025-2026 directory data.

Palm Bay Magnet stands apart in grade span. NCES lists palm bay magnet senior high school at 101 Pirate Ln, Melbourne, with 1,359 students and a grade range of 8 to 12 (NCES school search, Palm Bay Magnet), one grade wider than Bayside and Heritage. Together the three campuses enrolled 5,441 students in that count (2,122 plus 1,960 plus 1,359).

In the Florida Department of Education's 2025-26 school grades, released as of September 1, 2026, Bayside High and Heritage High each earned a B and Palm Bay Magnet High earned a C.

Florida grades high schools on the share of possible points earned: an A takes 65 percent or more, a B 60 to 64 percent, and a C 45 to 59 percent, according to the note at the top of the state file (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades, grading scale). Heritage High earned 64 percent of possible points, one point short of an A (FLDOE row, Heritage High); Bayside High earned 61 percent (FLDOE row, Bayside High); and Palm Bay Magnet High earned 56 percent (FLDOE row, Palm Bay Magnet).

The trend lines differ. Bayside moved from a C in 2024 to a B in 2025 and held it in 2026, while Heritage has posted a B in each of the last three years (FLDOE, Bayside; FLDOE, Heritage). Palm Bay Magnet has been graded C in 2024, 2025 and 2026. All three graduated at least 90 percent of their 2024-25 cohorts by the state's measure, with Heritage highest at 94 (FLDOE graduation rate, Heritage; Bayside; Palm Bay Magnet).

Each Palm Bay high school runs its own mix: Palm Bay Magnet High has magnet and career programs including a Fire Academy and Marine Corps JROTC, Heritage High offers Cambridge and Army JROTC, and Bayside High offers NJROTC and career academies.

Palm Bay Magnet's program list includes a 911 Public Safety Telecommunicator course that certifies students as dispatchers, Applied Engineering with Solidworks certification, Applied Robotics, Culinary Arts, Early Childhood Education linked to the school's Pirate VPK, Game Design and Simulation, Technical Design on AutoDESK Inventor, and Theatre Arts and Visual Arts programs (Palm Bay Magnet High). Its Fire Academy is a 4-year program that works with Brevard County Fire Rescue, Eastern Florida State College, Melbourne and Palm Bay, and its MCJROTC fields PT, drill, academic and air rifle teams.

Heritage High, home of the Panthers on Malabar Road, lists Cambridge classes through which students can earn college credit and a Cambridge diploma route to Bright Futures, plus Army JROTC (Heritage High). Its career offerings include Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Automotive Maintenance and Light Repair, Environmental Water and Reclamation Technology, Game Simulation, Animation and Programming, Medical Administrative Specialist and Sports Medicine.

Bayside High, which calls its Degroodt Road campus Bear Country, lists Dual Enrollment and Early College, career academies, an NJROTC unit, an Esports program and Television Productions, and it is designated a Purple Star School for military families (Bayside High). Bayside and Heritage both list Purple Star resources, and Palm Bay Magnet lists Military Family Resources under the same Purple Star program.

Under Florida law, a Palm Bay high school's grade adds two components to test results: the 4-year graduation rate and the share of students eligible for college credit through exams such as AP, Cambridge AICE or dual enrollment.

Section 1008.34 of the Florida Statutes says that for a school made up of grades 9 through 12, the grade is also based on components each worth 100 points, the first being the 4-year high school graduation rate (Florida Statutes s. 1008.34). The second counts students eligible to earn college and career credit through College Board Advanced Placement examinations, International Baccalaureate examinations, dual enrollment courses or Advanced International Certificate of Education examinations, among other routes. That is the statute behind the College and Career Acceleration row in the table above, where Bayside scored 70, Palm Bay Magnet 69 and Heritage 68.

The programs each Palm Bay campus advertises feed that component directly. Heritage's Cambridge classes lead to the Advanced International Certificate of Education exams named in the statute, and Bayside's Dual Enrollment and Early College offerings are the dual enrollment route (Bayside High). The statute also says schools are graded A for excellent progress, B for above average progress and C for satisfactory progress, which is how the state describes the B grades at Bayside and Heritage and the C at Palm Bay Magnet.

A public college campus sits inside Palm Bay itself. Eastern Florida State College's Palm Bay Campus is at 250 Community College Pkwy, Palm Bay, FL 32909, and the college describes it as sitting off Malabar Road by Lake Titan (Eastern Florida State College, Palm Bay Campus). The campus houses the college's Fire Academy, with a burn tower on the southern end of campus, and the Center for Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics. EFSC is also one of the partners named by the Palm Bay Magnet Fire Academy.

Palm Bay Magnet High is the only one of the three Palm Bay high schools flagged as Title I in the 2025-26 state file, with 87.3 percent of students counted as economically disadvantaged.

The FLDOE file marks Palm Bay Magnet as a Title I school and reports 87.3 percent economically disadvantaged students (FLDOE, Palm Bay Magnet), and the school's own site lists a Title 1 Program at PBMHS (Palm Bay Magnet High). The same state file shows Bayside at 50.6 percent and Heritage at 58.1 percent economically disadvantaged, with neither flagged Title I (FLDOE, Bayside; FLDOE, Heritage).

Contact details come from each school's page: Bayside High at (321) 956-5000, Heritage High at (321) 722-4178 and Palm Bay Magnet High at (321) 952-5900. Weather closures for all three follow the district rule quoted by the City of Palm Bay: the superintendent of Brevard Public Schools is the only person who will give the directive that schools are to close due to extreme weather conditions (City of Palm Bay emergency preparedness). Last verified: October 12, 2026, on the Brevard Public Schools and Florida Department of Education websites.