The top reported proficiency rate is 50% in English language arts. The lowest is 44% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Lyndon B. Johnson Middle School
Lyndon B. Johnson Middle School sits on Croton Road in Melbourne, serving seventh and eighth graders as part of Brevard Public Schools. It is a conventional public middle school, not a charter or magnet program, drawing from a residential stretch of a city whose economy runs on aerospace, defense, and healthcare anchored by employers like L3Harris and Northrop Grumman. Florida Tech and Eastern Florida State College are nearby, giving the broader community a more educated workforce character than many similarly sized Florida cities.
The school's enrollment is modest for a two-grade middle school. A majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which is a meaningful indicator of the economic circumstances the school works within. The student body is majority white, with Hispanic students making up roughly a quarter of enrollment, Black students a smaller share, and students of two or more races rounding out the population. IEP and English learner data were not available in what we reviewed, so a parent with a child in either category would want to ask the school directly about those supports.
On the Florida FAST assessments in the 2024-25 school year, proficiency rates tell a mixed story. In ELA, eighth graders came in just above half, which is the stronger of the two grade-level readings in that subject, while seventh-grade ELA was just below half. In math, seventh-grade proficiency was just under half, and eighth-grade math was noticeably lower, falling well below the halfway mark. The eighth-grade science assessment showed roughly four in ten students scoring proficient. None of these figures suggest a school where most students are reaching grade-level benchmarks, and a parent whose child is on track academically or accelerating would want to ask the school what it offers for those students, just as a parent of a struggling student would want to understand the intervention supports in place. Trend data was not available in the records we reviewed, so it is not possible to say whether results are improving, holding steady, or declining.
The comparison data available covers districts in Brevard County, but the county has too few districts for a meaningful peer comparison at the school level, so no relative position can be stated cleanly.
Melbourne itself has a character that ranges from compact and walkable in the historic downtown and the Eau Gallie Arts District to thoroughly car-dependent in most residential neighborhoods, which is where Croton Road falls. The Space Coast housing market near this school has seen home values ease modestly from recent peaks, with the local zip code sitting below the Florida statewide median and roughly in line with national figures. Rent-to-income ratios run at roughly a quarter of income, and the rental market has been nearly flat year-over-year, making the area accessible relative to many parts of Florida. Inventory has risen and homes are taking longer to sell, which publicly reported sources describe as stabilization rather than a sharp correction.
On district-level changes, the research turned up nothing confirmed, so that section was left out rather than filled with speculation.
For a family moving to the Melbourne area, LBJ Middle is a neighborhood public school in a community with real economic and institutional strengths. The academic proficiency picture is below where most parents would hope to see it, particularly in math, and that is worth raising directly with the school before making a decision.
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