Mims Elementary School, Mims FL - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Mims Elementary School

Mims Elementary sits on US Highway 1 in a small, semi-rural community at the northern end of Brevard County, serving children from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade. The school is part of Brevard Public Schools, the district that covers the full Space Coast corridor from Titusville south to Palm Bay.

The student body is a mix of White, Black, Hispanic, and multiracial children, with White students making up a slim majority. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places this school in a higher-need economic tier. Data on English learner rates and special education services were not available in the records reviewed.

State assessment results from Florida's FAST exams give a varied picture. ELA proficiency is relatively consistent across the tested grades, with third and fourth graders performing at a solid rate and sixth graders reaching the highest point among the tested cohorts. Fifth grade ELA and math are the weak spots, with proficiency falling noticeably below the other grades in both subjects. Third grade math also stands out as an area of concern, with fewer than one in three students reaching proficiency. Grades four and six in math show much stronger results, suggesting meaningful grade-to-grade variation within the school rather than a uniform pattern. Science, tested only at fifth grade under Florida's statewide assessment, landed roughly in the middle range. Parents who want to understand the specific drivers of the fifth-grade dip and what the school does to address it would be well served by asking directly.

Trend data was not available, so it is not possible to say whether these results represent improvement, stability, or decline from prior years. The comparison framework for this county involves only two districts, which is too small a set to yield a meaningful positioning, so no peer-relative ranking is given here.

Mims itself is a slow-growing bedroom community whose residents depend heavily on the broader Space Coast economy. Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station are a short drive south and anchor a significant share of local employment in aerospace and related professional fields, publicly reported sources note. Blue Origin also employs a large number of Brevard County residents. Parrish Medical Center in nearby Titusville is the closest hospital. Within the community, the newly rebuilt Mims/Scottsmoor Public Library offers wifi, study space, and a public meeting room. The Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Memorial Park and Cultural Center, a civil rights memorial maintained by the county at the Moore homesite in Mims, serves as a community gathering point. The Indian River and proximity to Canaveral National Seashore give the area a distinctly natural character.

Housing near the school is priced roughly in line with the statewide median and slightly above the national median, based on current estimates, with values essentially flat year over year. New construction is active in the area, publicly reported sources indicate, with builders including DR Horton drawing on demand from Space Coast workers seeking more affordable and less developed settings than southern Brevard offers. The community is described as appealing to buyers who value land, space, and a rural feel.

No information about specific program offerings at Mims Elementary was available in the data reviewed. District-level strategic priorities and any recent policy changes at Brevard Public Schools were also not surfaced in the research.

For a family considering Mims Elementary, the school offers a PreK entry point and a neighborhood setting in a community that values affordable space and proximity to Space Coast employment. The academic profile is uneven enough that a visit and direct conversation with the school about its reading and math support structures, particularly in the middle elementary years, would give parents a clearer picture than the aggregate numbers alone can provide.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 324%

School 24% · District 59% · ▼ 35 pts below district

▼ 39 pts below state median · ▼ 36 pts below county median

Grade 457%

School 57% · District 60% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 4 pts below state median · even with county median

Grade 538%

School 38% · District 57% · ▼ 19 pts below district

▼ 17 pts below state median · ▼ 17 pts below county median

Grade 656%

School 56% · District 72% · ▼ 16 pts below district

▼ 6 pts below state median · ▼ 17 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 356%

School 56% · District 58% · ▼ 2 pts below district

even with state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Grade 459%

School 59% · District 58% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Grade 534%

School 34% · District 60% · ▼ 26 pts below district

▼ 20 pts below state median · ▼ 25 pts below county median

Grade 662%

School 62% · District 70% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Science

Grade 541%

School 41% · District 60% · ▼ 19 pts below district

▼ 12 pts below state median · ▼ 20 pts below county median

This schoolBREVARD, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income44%Higher-income85%41 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income50%Higher-income75%25 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income23%Higher-income50%27 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income56%Higher-income71%15 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income22%Higher-income31%9 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income50%Higher-income70%20 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income27%Higher-income53%26 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income44%Higher-income79%35 pp gap