Lockmar Elementary — Palm Bay, Florida

Lockmar Elementary is a Brevard Public Schools campus at 525 Pepper Street NE, Palm Bay, FL 32907, and it teaches prekindergarten through sixth grade.

The school's own page lists that Pepper Street address with the front office at 321.676.3730 and a fax line at 321.877.0926, and it calls the campus the Home of the Knights (Lockmar Elementary). The federal Common Core of Data lists Lockmar Elementary as a regular school, open, not a charter, with a grade span of PK to 6, NCES School ID 120015002112 and State School ID FL-05-2111 (NCES, Lockmar Elementary). The 2111 in that state ID is the same school number that appears beside Lockmar in the Florida Department of Education grades file, which is how the state and federal records line up.

Two Palm Bay public schools carry the Lockmar name, and they are run differently. Pineapple Cove Classical Academy at Lockmar is a charter school at 720 Emerson Drive NE, listed by NCES with 724 students in kindergarten through grade 8 (NCES search, Lockmar). It has its own row in the state file and earned a B in 2026 with 64 percent of possible points (FLDOE, Pineapple Cove at Lockmar). Every figure on this page refers to Lockmar Elementary on Pepper Street, not the Emerson Drive charter.

Lockmar Elementary counted 572 students in the 2024-2025 federal membership data, with 45.00 full-time-equivalent classroom teachers, or 12.71 students per teacher.

NCES breaks the Lockmar enrollment down by grade: 31 in prekindergarten, 79 in kindergarten, 86 in first grade, 75 in second, 69 in third, 82 in fourth, 67 in fifth and 83 in sixth (NCES, Lockmar Elementary). The sixth-grade class of 83 is the second largest grade on the Pepper Street campus after first grade, because Lockmar runs through grade 6. The same record counts 315 boys and 257 girls.

By the race and ethnicity categories NCES uses, Lockmar Elementary enrolled 299 White students, 121 Hispanic students, 101 Black students, 43 students of two or more races, 5 Asian students, 2 Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander students and 1 American Indian or Alaska Native student in 2024-2025. NCES notes that its Lockmar membership and staffing counts are official 2024-2025 school-level data, while the name, address and phone are preliminary 2025-2026 directory data.

Lockmar Elementary earned a C in the Florida Department of Education's 2025-26 school grades file, dated as of September 1, 2026, after a B in both 2024 and 2025.

The state scale for elementary schools sets an A at 62 percent of points or more, a B at 54 to 61 percent and a C at 41 to 53 percent (FLDOE grading scale). Lockmar earned 423 points over 8 components, which is 53 percent of the points possible, and tested 98 percent of eligible students (FLDOE, Lockmar Elementary). That puts the Pepper Street school at the very top of the C band: one more percentage point would have reached the 54 percent B line.

The component scores explain where the Lockmar points came from. English Language Arts learning gains were the strongest at 65, and math learning gains among the lowest 25 percent of students were the weakest at 35 (FLDOE components, Lockmar). Florida law defines Learning Gains as the degree of student learning growth from one school year to the next, and it counts the lowest 25 percent in ELA and in math as separate components (Florida Statutes s. 1008.34). The grade 3 ELA component, which counts third graders scoring level 3 or higher, stood at 47 at Lockmar.

Two other Brevard Public Schools elementaries in Palm Bay finished well above Lockmar in the same 2025-26 file. Port Malabar Elementary earned an A with 65 percent of points (FLDOE, Port Malabar), and Riviera Elementary earned an A with 72 percent (FLDOE, Riviera). Lockmar's math learning gains for its lowest-scoring quarter, at 35, are the clearest gap on the Pepper Street scorecard when set beside those two campuses, each of which reported that component above 55.

Lockmar Elementary was graded A in every year from 2001 through 2012, and since 2016 it has earned only B and C grades, according to the history columns in the state's 2025-26 file.

The FLDOE file shows A grades for Lockmar in 2001 through 2006 and on through 2012 (FLDOE grade history, Lockmar), a B in 2013, then A grades in 2014 and in the 2015 informational baseline year. From 2016 the Pepper Street school recorded B, B, C and B for 2016 through 2019 (FLDOE, Lockmar 2013 to 2017), C in 2022, a B in the 2023 informational baseline, B in 2024 and 2025, and C in 2026. The earliest years in the file are an A in 1999 and a B in 2000.

Gaps in the Lockmar record are statewide, not local. The state report card site explains that spring 2019-20 testing was canceled and accountability measures were not calculated, and that schools that did not opt in received no summative rating for 2020-21 (Florida Report Cards). The 2026 C is the first Lockmar grade below B since 2022.

Lockmar Elementary, home of the Knights, features four programs on its Brevard Public Schools page: music, a safety patrol, a Destination Mars team and a drama club.

The Lockmar music program holds multiple performances through the school year, including the Junk Yard Band, Chorus, Handbells and Strings (Lockmar Elementary programs). The school's safety patrol, in the page's words, carries on the more than 100 year tradition of students aiding in the safety of students during drop-off and pick-up. Lockmar describes its Destination Mars team as award-winning, and its Drama Club as building creativity and confidence through the performing arts.

Beyond the clubs, the Lockmar site menu links to Brevard After School (LAC), a PTA page, ScootPad, Purple Star, a VPK page, Water Safety, a Title I page, and enrollment and cafeteria sections. The Lockmar page lists those sections in its menu without giving fees or schedules there, so none are stated here.

Yes: the 2025-26 FLDOE school grades file marks Lockmar Elementary as a Title I school and reports 86.7 percent of its students as economically disadvantaged.

The state file flags Title I as YES for Lockmar and gives the 86.7 percent figure in its economically disadvantaged column (FLDOE, Lockmar Title I). Federal lunch data measure something narrower. NCES counts 257 Lockmar students eligible for free lunch and 31 for reduced-price lunch in 2024-2025, 288 in total, which is about 50.3 percent of the 572 enrolled (288 divided by 572). NCES also lists 257 students eligible for free lunch through direct certification, the route for households already receiving benefits such as SNAP.

The City of Palm Bay's new resident page says Palm Bay has eleven public elementary schools, three middle schools, three high schools and three charter schools (City of Palm Bay new resident information). Storm closures at Lockmar are a district call: the City of Palm Bay emergency page names the Brevard Public Schools superintendent as the sole decision maker and lists Brevard County Public Schools at (321) 633-1000 ext. 797 (City of Palm Bay emergency preparedness). Last verified: October 13, 2026, on the Lockmar Elementary page of the Brevard Public Schools website.