The top reported proficiency rate is 49% in English language arts. The lowest is 33% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Stone Magnet Middle School
Stone Magnet Middle School sits on East University Boulevard in Melbourne, serving seventh and eighth graders in Brevard County's public school system. Despite the "Magnet" in its name, the data on hand does not confirm a defined magnet program or theme, and no program offerings were provided, so that dimension of the school's identity cannot be characterized here. Parents curious about whether a specific focus or application process applies should ask the school directly.
The school enrolls a middle-sized population for a two-grade building. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, meaning this is a community the school is serving that includes a significant portion of economically disadvantaged families. The student body is racially mixed, with white students forming a plurality, Black students the next largest group, followed by Hispanic students, and meaningful representation of multiracial students. Data on English learner enrollment and students with IEPs was not reported, so those dimensions of the student population cannot be described.
On the most recent Florida state assessments, reading proficiency tells a mixed story across the two grades. Seventh graders read at a rate that clears roughly half the tested population, while eighth-grade reading falls below half. In math, the pattern is sharper. Seventh-grade math lands below half as well, and eighth-grade math is considerably lower, placing the school well below what most families would consider comfortable performance on that measure. Science is tested only in eighth grade, and results there also fall below the halfway mark. These are the 2024-25 FAST and Florida Statewide Science Assessment results; multi-year trend data was not available, so it is not possible to say whether the school is improving, holding, or declining. A parent would do well to ask the school directly about what supports are in place for students who are not yet at proficiency, particularly in eighth-grade math and science.
Comparison against other districts in Brevard County was not computable from the data provided, as the county's comparison set was too small for that calculation to be meaningful, so there is no peer positioning to offer.
Because this is a seventh-and-eighth-grade school only, graduation rate does not apply and is not reported.
Melbourne itself gives this school a particular setting worth understanding. The city anchors Florida's Space Coast, with L3Harris Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Florida Institute of Technology, and Health First among the dominant employers, publicly reported. High-tech, defense, aerospace, and healthcare form the backbone of the local economy, which creates a professional workforce in the broader community even as the school's own economic profile, reflected in its lunch eligibility rate, indicates many families the school serves are not in that higher-income tier.
The neighborhood directly around the school, along University Boulevard, places it near Florida Tech's campus and within reach of both the historic downtown Melbourne core and the Eau Gallie Arts District, two genuinely walkable, arts-and-dining-forward areas along the Indian River Lagoon, publicly reported. The wider city runs more car-dependent outside those concentrations.
Housing near the school is priced meaningfully below the Florida state median, and values have softened slightly over the past year while rents have nudged upward. The rent-to-income ratio, relative to national norms, sits in a range that is broadly manageable, though not inexpensive. The Space Coast market is stabilizing after years of rapid appreciation, with more inventory and longer time on market than in recent peak years, publicly reported.
No district-level strategic priorities or parent-relevant changes from Brevard Public Schools were found in time to be included here, so that layer is left out rather than approximated.
For a family weighing this school, the picture is a racially diverse public middle school in a mid-sized city with a strong regional employment base, proficiency results that are soft and in eighth-grade math particularly so, and program details that the data does not resolve. Those gaps are worth a direct conversation with the school before drawing conclusions.
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