Audubon Elementary School, Merritt Island FL

Original Research by School Decision on Audubon Elementary School

Audubon Elementary sits on North Banana River Drive on Merritt Island, a barrier island community along Florida's Space Coast in Brevard County. The school serves prekindergarten through sixth grade, which means it carries students a year or two further than a traditional elementary stop, giving families a longer runway before the transition to middle school. Enrollment is modest for its grade span.

About half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which reflects a genuinely mixed economic profile rather than one skewed heavily in either direction. The student body is majority white, with Hispanic students making up the next largest group, followed by students identifying as two or more races and Black students. Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and American Indian or Alaska Native students are each represented in smaller numbers. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in what was provided.

On the Florida FAST assessments in the most recent school year, the picture varies meaningfully by grade and subject. In math, third grade and fifth grade proficiency sits at a moderate level, while fourth and sixth grade results are stronger, with sixth grade in particular landing well above the midpoint. ELA follows a similar uneven pattern: third, fourth, and sixth grade proficiency is in a solid range, but fifth grade ELA proficiency dips noticeably below what the other grades show. The fifth-grade science result, from the Florida Statewide Science Assessment, is in a similar range as the weaker ELA numbers. A parent whose child is approaching fifth grade may want to ask the school directly about what is driving that pattern and what supports are in place. Multi-year trend data was not available, so it is not possible to say whether these results are improving, stable, or declining.

Comparison data relative to other districts in Brevard County was flagged as not applicable because the county comparison set contains too few districts to yield a meaningful position. Program information was not available in the data provided.

On the housing side, the Merritt Island zip code has home values noticeably above the Florida statewide median and above the national median, with values down modestly year over year. Rents have moved in the opposite direction, rising over the same period. The rent-to-income ratio sits in a range where renting remains meaningfully more accessible than buying at current mortgage rates, though neither option is inexpensive by Florida standards.

Web research on Merritt Island's community character, employers, walkability, and local anchors returned no usable results before the search budget was exhausted, so those details are absent here rather than guessed at. The same was true for any recent district-level changes in Brevard County; no confirmed parent-relevant policy or program shifts were found.

What the data shows is a school with real academic strengths in certain grades, particularly upper-elementary math and sixth-grade ELA, alongside soft spots in fifth grade that are worth a direct conversation with school staff. The extended grade band through sixth grade is a concrete structural feature that shapes the elementary experience here.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 362%

School 62% · District 59% · ▲ 3 pts above district

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

Grade 473%

School 73% · District 60% · ▲ 13 pts above district

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

Grade 557%

School 57% · District 57%

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Grade 679%

School 79% · District 72% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 17 pts above state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 369%

School 69% · District 58% · ▲ 11 pts above district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

Grade 470%

School 70% · District 58% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 15 pts above county median

Grade 547%

School 47% · District 60% · ▼ 13 pts below district

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

Grade 670%

School 70% · District 70%

▲ 10 pts above state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

Science

Grade 546%

School 46% · District 60% · ▼ 14 pts below district

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 15 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-income68%Higher-income70%2 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income68%Higher-income71%4 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income37%Higher-income53%17 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income65%Higher-income77%12 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income60%Higher-income63%3 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income68%Higher-income77%9 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income32%Higher-income73%42 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income74%Higher-income83%9 pp gap