Riviera Elementary — Palm Bay, Florida

Riviera Elementary in Palm Bay holds an A in Florida's 2025-26 school grades, its third A in a row, with 72 percent of possible points.

The Florida Department of Education file, published with an as-of date of September 1, 2026, credits Riviera with 575 points over 8 components and A grades for 2026, 2025 and 2024, and records that 98 percent of Riviera students eligible for testing sat the exams (FLDOE, Riviera Elementary). Elementary schools need 62 percent of points for an A (FLDOE grading scale), so the Riviera Drive campus finished ten points above the cutoff. Florida law describes an A school as one making excellent progress (Florida Statutes s. 1008.34).

Every Riviera component landed at 65 or higher. Grade 3 English Language Arts achievement was the top score at 79, math learning gains reached 75, and ELA learning gains among the lowest 25 percent of students were the lowest at 65 (FLDOE components, Riviera). The grade 3 ELA figure counts Riviera third graders who scored achievement level 3 or higher on the statewide grade 3 English Language Arts assessment, a component the statute adds for schools that include grade 3.

Riviera Elementary is at 351 Riviera Drive N.E., Palm Bay, FL 32905, and its Brevard Public Schools page lists the office at (321) 676-4237 and the fax at (321) 735-9750.

Those contact details sit in the footer of the Riviera page on the district's site (Riviera Elementary). The National Center for Education Statistics records the same 351 Riviera Dr NE address in ZIP 32905, lists Riviera Elementary School as a regular, open, non-charter school, and assigns NCES School ID 120015002698 and State School ID FL-05-2171 (NCES, Riviera Elementary). The federal directory still shows an older web address, riviera.brevard.k12.fl.us, for the school.

The City of Palm Bay's guide for newcomers tallies eleven public elementary schools in the city, plus three middle, three high and three charter schools (City of Palm Bay new resident information).

Riviera Elementary enrolled 718 students in prekindergarten through sixth grade in 2024-2025, staffed by 44.60 full-time-equivalent classroom teachers, or 16.10 students for each teacher.

Second grade was the largest group at Riviera with 122 students, followed by 107 kindergartners; NCES lists 76 in prekindergarten, 83 in first grade, 90 in third, 71 in fourth, 81 in fifth and 88 in sixth (NCES, Riviera Elementary). The school reported 383 boys and 335 girls.

NCES race and ethnicity counts for Riviera Elementary in 2024-2025 were 230 White, 216 Hispanic, 172 Black, 74 multiracial and 19 Asian students, with 7 more in the two smallest categories combined (5 plus 2). On these counts no single group made up a majority of the Riviera student body: White students, the largest group, were 230 of 718, or about 32 percent.

No: Riviera Elementary has swung between A and C over the state's grading history, with C grades as recently as 2022 and three years of C from 2013 to 2015.

The FLDOE history columns give Riviera C grades in 1999 and 2000, an A in 2001, a C in 2002, and A grades in 2003 and 2004 (FLDOE, Riviera 1999 to 2004). A B in 2005 was followed by six straight A years from 2006 through 2011 (FLDOE, Riviera 2005 to 2011). The Riviera Drive school then dropped to B in 2012, C in 2013, 2014 and the 2015 informational baseline, and alternated B, B, C, B from 2016 to 2019, then C in 2022 and B in the 2023 baseline (FLDOE, Riviera 2012 to 2023).

Riviera has no grade for 2020 or 2021 in the state file: spring 2019-20 testing was canceled and the accountability measures relying on it were not calculated, and for 2020-21 districts and schools that did not opt in received no summative rating, per the state report card site (Florida Report Cards). The current Riviera streak of A grades began in 2024, the year after that baseline B.

Riviera Elementary lists four programs on its homepage: Strings for fifth and sixth graders, Chorus for grades 4 to 6, Odyssey of the Mind for grades 3 to 6 and a Destination Moon Club for sixth graders.

According to the Riviera page, 5th and 6th graders may participate in Strings, and 4th, 5th and 6th graders can join chorus (Riviera Elementary programs). Odyssey of the Mind is open to Riviera students in grades 3 through 6, and the page calls it an international creative problem solving program that competes with other schools. The Destination Moon Club is limited to Riviera sixth graders; the school describes it as a Brevard Public Schools competition based after school club.

The Riviera menu also points families to Brevard After School, VPK, Water Safety, Purple Star, the FAST state assessment, Free and Reduced Price Meals, a School Report Card, a School Improvement Plan and a School Bio. The Riviera pages fetched for this article list those sections without fees or dates, so none are given here.

Among three Brevard Public Schools elementaries with NE street addresses in Palm Bay, Riviera has the most students, the most students per teacher and the highest share of 2026 grade points.

Riviera posted 72 percent of possible points in the 2025-26 state file, compared with 65 percent at Port Malabar Elementary on Pioneer Ave. NE (FLDOE, Port Malabar) and 53 percent at Lockmar Elementary on Pepper Street NE (FLDOE, Lockmar). That spread produced A grades at Riviera and Port Malabar and a C at Lockmar, which landed one point under the 54 percent elementary B line.

On the federal 2024-2025 counts, Riviera's 718 students compare with 628 at Port Malabar (NCES, Port Malabar) and 572 at Lockmar (NCES, Lockmar). Riviera's 44.60 classroom teachers are slightly fewer than the 45.60 at Port Malabar and the 45.00 at Lockmar, so Riviera averages 16.10 students per teacher against 13.77 and 12.71. All three run from prekindergarten through grade 6, and the state file flags all three as Title I schools.

Riviera Elementary is a Title I school, and the 2025-26 state grades file lists 100 percent of its students as economically disadvantaged.

The FLDOE row for Riviera marks Title I as YES alongside the 100 percent economically disadvantaged figure (FLDOE, Riviera Title I). Using a different measure, NCES puts Riviera free-lunch eligibility at 386 students and reduced-price eligibility at 39 for 2024-2025, 425 combined, which is about 59.2 percent of 718 (425 divided by 718).

Riviera's run of A grades also matters under s. 1008.36, which creates the Florida School Recognition Program for schools that sustain high performance by receiving an A (Florida Statutes s. 1008.36); awards depend on appropriated funds, and no source fetched for Riviera states an award amount. For hurricanes and other weather, the decision to shut Riviera rests with the district superintendent alone, according to the City of Palm Bay, which publishes the school district line as (321) 633-1000 ext. 797 (City of Palm Bay emergency preparedness). Last verified: October 13, 2026, against the Riviera Elementary school site and the FLDOE 2025-26 grades file.