Palm Bay Elementary — Palm Bay, Florida

Palm Bay Elementary was the city's first school: the City of Palm Bay's history timeline records that the city's first school, Palm Bay Elementary, was built in 1966.

The timeline puts that opening six years after Palm Bay was incorporated as a city with 2,808 residents in 1960, under Mayor Harry Pollak and the Town Council (City of Palm Bay history). The same page traces the settlement back to Tillman, where homesteaders settled at the mouth of Turkey Creek in 1887, and records that the 200 residents of Tillman petitioned in 1925 to take the name Palm Bay.

The city kept growing after Palm Bay Elementary was built. The city timeline lists Fire Station 1 on Palm Bay Road in 1967, the first city library on Port Malabar Boulevard in 1984, and a 1990 population of 62,632 that made Palm Bay the most populous city in Brevard County (City of Palm Bay history). By 2006 the population had passed 100,000.

Six decades on, the city's first school is one of many. The City of Palm Bay's guide for newcomers counts eleven public elementary schools in the city, alongside three middle, three high and three charter schools (City of Palm Bay new resident information).

Palm Bay Elementary sits at 1200 Allamanda Road NE in northeast Palm Bay, ZIP 32905, and the main office answers at 321-723-1055.

Brevard Public Schools lists the campus as Palm Bay Elementary, 1200 Allamanda Road, N.E. Palm Bay, FL 32905, with fax 321-735-9743 (Palm Bay Elementary). The federal directory spells the street with one L, 1200 Alamanda Rd NE, at the same number and ZIP code (NCES, Palm Bay Elementary). This page uses the school district's spelling and notes the federal one; both point to the same Palm Bay campus.

NCES classifies Palm Bay Elementary as a regular, open, non-charter public school, School ID 120015000108, with state school ID FL-05-2081, in a midsize city locale (NCES). In the Florida Department of Education's grades file the Brevard campus is school 2081 in district 05.

The name is shared with a second Florida school. The state's 2025-26 grades file lists another Palm Bay Elementary School as school 0801 in district 03, Bay County (FLDOE row 93, Bay County). Any search for the Brevard campus's grades or test scores should match district 05 and school number 2081.

Palm Bay Elementary enrolled 583 students in prekindergarten through grade 6 in 2024-2025, with 44.00 full-time-equivalent classroom teachers and 13.25 students per teacher.

Those counts come from the official 2024-2025 school-level data published by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES, Palm Bay Elementary). The campus on Allamanda Road had 297 boys and 286 girls.

Prekindergarten was the biggest single group at Palm Bay Elementary in that count, 83 children, while kindergarten was the smallest at 55 (NCES enrollment by grade). Classes shrink after grade 4: 81 fourth graders, 67 fifth graders and 59 sixth graders. The eight grade counts add to 583, matching the NCES total.

In NCES racial and ethnic categories, Palm Bay Elementary had 210 White, 201 Black, 115 Hispanic, 54 multiracial, 2 Asian and 1 American Indian or Alaska Native student in 2024-2025 (NCES race and ethnicity). White and Black students were close to even, at about 36 and 34 percent of the 583.

Palm Bay Elementary received a B for 2025-26 from the Florida Department of Education, with 54 percent of possible points, exactly on the B threshold, and it repeated the B it earned in 2025.

The state's elementary scale gives a B for 54 to 61 percent of points and a C for 41 to 53 percent (FLDOE grading scale). Palm Bay Elementary collected 433 points on 8 components, 54 percent, with 96 percent of eligible students tested (FLDOE, Palm Bay Elementary, T138). Florida law requires each school to assess at least 95 percent of eligible students and defines a B as above average progress (Florida Statutes 1008.34).

Math growth carried the score at Palm Bay Elementary: 69 percent of eligible students made learning gains in mathematics, the highest of its eight components (FLDOE math, Palm Bay Elementary). Third-grade reading was the low point, with 37 percent reaching achievement level (FLDOE reading, Palm Bay Elementary). Math achievement (57) ran ahead of reading achievement (51) at the Allamanda Road school, and science stood at 53.

Palm Bay Elementary earned an A in ten straight years from 2003 through 2012, fell to a D in 2016 and 2017, and climbed back to a B in 2025 and 2026.

The FLDOE file carries the Palm Bay school's grades back to 1999. It received a C each year from 1999 to 2002 (FLDOE, 1999 to 2002), then an A every year from 2003 to 2012 (FLDOE, 2003 to 2012). After a B in 2013 and a C in 2014 and the 2015 informational baseline, the school was graded D in both 2016 and 2017 (FLDOE, 2013 to 2019).

From 2018 Palm Bay Elementary returned to C, held it in 2019, 2022, the 2023 informational baseline and 2024, and moved up to B in 2025 (FLDOE, 2022 to 2026). The 2025 and 2026 grades are its first back-to-back B grades in the file, and the school's best run since the A years ended in 2012.

Palm Bay Elementary is a Title I school where the state counts 100 percent of students as economically disadvantaged, and 419 of its 583 students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in the federal count.

The Florida Department of Education flags Palm Bay Elementary as Title I and lists the economically disadvantaged share at 100 percent (FLDOE Title I flag, Palm Bay Elementary). NCES reports 398 students eligible for free lunch and 21 for reduced-price lunch, 419 in all, or about 72 percent of enrollment; all 398 free-lunch students were certified directly through programs such as SNAP (NCES lunch eligibility).

On campus, Palm Bay Elementary calls itself a PBIS school built around the word LEAD: Listen to Learn, Encourage Good Habits, Applaud Diversity, and Do what's right (Palm Bay Elementary programs). The school page also features the Pirate News Network and the Li'l Pirate News Network. Its menu also carries pages for AVID, ESOL guidance, STEM at PBE, art, music, media and physical education, along with Brevard After School, VPK and the Purple Star resources for military families (Palm Bay Elementary menu).

Parents can take part through the School Advisory Council. The Palm Bay Elementary page lists SAC meetings in the Media Center from 5:00 to 6:00 PM, with the spring 2026 sessions on March 9, April 13 and May 11, 2026 (Palm Bay Elementary SAC meetings). The school menu also links an Enrollment page. Last verified: October 12, 2026, on the Brevard Public Schools website.