John F. Turner Sr. Elementary — Palm Bay, Florida

Turner Elementary, a Brevard Public Schools campus, stands at 3175 Jupiter Boulevard SE in Palm Bay, FL 32909 and serves prekindergarten through grade 6 (NCES).

The Turner Elementary website footer reads 3175 Jupiter Blvd., SE Palm Bay, FL 32909, with the main office at (321) 676-5700 and a fax line at (321) 735-9763 (Turner Elementary website). In the federal Common Core of Data directory for 2025-2026, the school appears as John F. Turner Senior Elementary School, a regular public school that is open and not a charter, with State School ID FL-05-2121 and NCES School ID 120015002281 (NCES school record). The state school grades file uses the longest form of the name, JOHN F. TURNER, SENIOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, under school number 2121 (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades).

Turner Elementary is the school on Jupiter Boulevard, while Jupiter Elementary is a separate Brevard school at 950 Tupelo Rd SW, Palm Bay, FL 32908, with 856 students in PK through 6 in the NCES listing (NCES school search, Jupiter Elementary). Families looking up a Jupiter Boulevard address should check which of the two schools is meant before calling either front office.

Turner Elementary had 600 students in 2024-2025, taught by 39.00 full-time-equivalent classroom teachers, a ratio of 15.38 students per teacher in the NCES count for the Jupiter Boulevard campus (NCES school record).

Two things stand out in the Turner Elementary grade counts. Grade 3 was the biggest class at 95 students, and the prekindergarten group of 59 was large for a school of 600, almost one in ten students on the Jupiter Boulevard campus (NCES enrollment by grade). Grade 3 matters in Florida because the state grade includes a separate Grade 3 English Language Arts achievement component, discussed below.

The NCES count for Turner Elementary splits 308 boys and 292 girls. By race and ethnicity it lists 212 White, 186 Black, 148 Hispanic, 51 multiracial and 3 Asian students, with no American Indian or Pacific Islander students recorded (NCES enrollment characteristics). Black students made up 186 of 600, or 31 percent, a larger share than at Sunrise Elementary on Mara Loma Boulevard, where NCES counts 152 Black students out of 907 (NCES Sunrise record).

For meals, NCES reports 383 Turner Elementary students eligible for free lunch and 50 for reduced-price lunch, 433 in all, or about 72 percent of 600 (NCES). The state school grades file reports Turner at 100 percent economically disadvantaged (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades). The two agencies use different definitions, so the federal lunch count and the state percentage are reported side by side here rather than reconciled.

Turner Elementary received a C for 2025-26, earning 418 points over eight components, 52 percent of the total possible, with 99 percent of eligible students tested (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades).

The elementary scale in the same state file sets a B at 54% to 61% of points and a C at 41% to 53% of points (FLDOE grading scale). Turner Elementary therefore finished two percentage points short of a B (54 minus 52), while it stayed 11 points clear of the bottom of the C band (52 minus 41).

The Turner Elementary profile is a growth profile. Its four learning gains scores, 61, 58, 59 and 59, are all higher than its four achievement scores, 45, 47, 50 and 39 (FLDOE component scores). On the Jupiter Boulevard campus, the share of students making learning gains was higher than the share passing the achievement measures. Science at 39 was the weakest Turner component.

Growth counts by law. Section 1008.34, Florida Statutes, builds the grade partly from the percentage of eligible students in the lowest 25 percent in English Language Arts and in mathematics who make learning gains (Section 1008.34, Florida Statutes). For Turner Elementary, the four gains rows add up to 237 points (61 plus 58 plus 59 plus 59), against 181 points from the four achievement rows (45 plus 47 plus 50 plus 39), together making the 418.

No: Turner Elementary earned A grades in 2003 through 2006 and again in 2008 through 2010, B grades from 2011 to 2013, and has been graded C in every year from 2014 through 2026 (FLDOE grade history).

The Turner Elementary record reaches back to 1999, the earliest grade year in the state file, when it received a C (FLDOE grade history). The file holds no grades for 2020 or 2021, so the run of C grades skips those two years.

The 2023 C carries an asterisk of its own. State law made the 2022-2023 grades an informational baseline, and because learning gains data were missing that year, the scale was set so the share of each letter matched 2021-2022 (Section 1008.34, Florida Statutes). For Turner Elementary, whose points now lean on learning gains, that baseline year was graded without the learning gains data that make up most of its 2025-26 points.

Turner Elementary also sits below its district. Brevard Public Schools earned a district A in 2026, 2025 and 2024 (FLDOE 2025-26 district grades), the same three years the Jupiter Boulevard school earned a C.

Turner Elementary at 52 percent of points sat just below Lockmar Elementary at 53 and Columbia Elementary at 56 in 2025-26, and all three Palm Bay schools carry the Title I flag in the state file (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades).

Columbia Elementary, another 32909 school, is listed by NCES at 1225 Waco Blvd SE with 576 students in PK through 6 (NCES school search, Columbia Elementary), close in size to Turner's 600. Columbia held a B for a third straight year with 56 percent and a 98.5 percent economically disadvantaged rate (FLDOE, Columbia row), showing that a southeast Palm Bay Title I school with almost the same poverty measure as Turner Elementary can clear the B line. Lockmar Elementary earned 53 percent and a C with 86.7 percent economically disadvantaged (FLDOE, Lockmar row).

The City of Palm Bay counts eleven public elementary schools in the city (City of Palm Bay new resident information). In the 2025-26 state file, Turner Elementary posted the lowest percent of points of the Palm Bay elementary rows reviewed for this page, which included Sunrise at 59 (FLDOE, Sunrise row), Westside at 58 (FLDOE, Westside row), Columbia at 56, Palm Bay Elementary at 54 and Lockmar at 53 (FLDOE, Palm Bay Elementary row).

The Turner Elementary site lists an Esports Club, a Destination Mars science program, Orchestra and Chorus Club, and the state SSYRA reading program, along with Title I, VPK, Partners in Education and Science and Engineering Fair pages (Turner Elementary website).

Destination Mars is the most distinctive Turner Elementary program. The school describes it this way: Year-long missions require the students to solve problems using coding, circuits, robotics, and engineering design (Turner Elementary programs). The SSYRA entry explains that the Sunshine State Young Readers Award program is a statewide reading initiative designed to encourage students in grades 3 through 8 to read independently for pleasure, and Turner serves grades 3 through 6 of that range (NCES grade span).

Title I status is the funding fact behind several Turner Elementary pages. The FLDOE 2025-26 file marks the school YES in its Title I column (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades), and the school site has its own Title I page under Parents and Students, next to a free and reduced lunch link in the cafeteria menu (Turner Elementary website).

Questions about attendance zones, buses or registration for the Jupiter Boulevard campus go to the Turner Elementary office at (321) 676-5700; the City of Palm Bay does not run schools, which belong to Brevard Public Schools.

Last verified: October 12, 2026, using the Turner Elementary site, the federal NCES directory and the state FLDOE grades spreadsheet.