Space Coast Junior/senior High School, Cocoa FL

Original Research by School Decision on Space Coast Junior/senior High School

Space Coast Junior/Senior High School sits on Banyan Street in Cocoa, Florida, part of Brevard County's public school system. It serves grades seven through twelve, which means a student can enter as a seventh grader and walk through the same building all the way to graduation. That span is not universal among middle-high combinations, and for some families it offers continuity; for others, the mixed age range across such a wide band is a factor worth weighing.

Enrollment is sizable for a combined junior-senior high. The student body is predominantly white, with Hispanic students making up the next largest share and a meaningful portion identifying as two or more races. Close to half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting a community where economic need is present but not dominant.

On the Florida state assessments for the most recent year available, seventh-grade math proficiency came in at a solid majority of students scoring at grade level, making it the strongest tested result in the data. Seventh-grade ELA and eighth-grade ELA were similar to each other, both landing just above or at roughly the midpoint, and eighth-grade science fell into the same general range. Eighth-grade math was the softest result, with well under half of students reaching proficiency. No high school state testing results were reported in the data provided, and trend data across years was not available, so it is not possible to say whether these figures represent improvement, decline, or stability. A parent interested in trajectory would want to ask the school directly.

No program offerings were included in the data. This means AP courses, dual enrollment, career and technical education pathways, or other specialized programs cannot be described here. Given that the school serves through twelfth grade, those pathways may well exist, but this profile cannot confirm them. Families focused on college-prep breadth or career tracks should ask the school for its current course catalog.

IEP and English learner data were not reported, so nothing can be said about the scale of special education services or language support. Graduation rate data was also absent from what was provided, which is a meaningful gap for a school that includes high school grades. A parent should ask the school or district for its most recent four-year graduation rate.

On the housing side, the zip code around the school sits modestly below the Florida statewide home value benchmark, and below the national median as well. Values have softened slightly year over year, which is consistent with a broader cooling in Florida's coastal markets. Rents have moved in the opposite direction, edging up. The rent-to-income ratio sits just below the threshold that housing researchers typically flag as a burden. For a family choosing between renting and buying, the monthly mortgage on a median-priced home in this zip code runs noticeably above typical rent, which reflects both the current rate environment and where local prices have settled.

Cocoa's community character, walkability, major employers, and civic anchors were all searched for but no usable sourced information came back before the research budget was exhausted, so those dimensions are left out here rather than guessed at. Similarly, the Brevard district brief returned no confirmed parent-relevant policy or program changes, so nothing is reported on that front.

The comparison set for Brevard County contains only two districts, which means the proficiency index comparison was flagged as not applicable given the very small cohort. Chronic absenteeism and graduation comparisons were also unavailable. The school simply cannot be positioned against county peers on these measures with the data at hand.

What comes through clearly is a school with a wide grade span, a mixed economic mix of students, ELA and science results that sit near the middle of the state distribution in the grades tested, a softer math result in eighth grade that a parent may want to explore further with the school, and a set of high school outcomes that cannot be evaluated from the available data.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

80-84%Cohort of 200 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

867 schools plotted. 183 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grade 763%

School 63% · District 64% · ▼ 1 pts below district

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

Grade 842%

School 42% · District 41% · ▲ 1 pts above district

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

English language arts

Grade 756%

School 56% · District 62% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 857%

School 57% · District 59% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Science

Grade 853%

School 53% · District 53%

▲ 7 pts above state median · even with 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 7Lower-income54%Higher-income59%6 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income50%Higher-income63%13 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 7Lower-income54%Higher-income75%21 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income34%Higher-income51%17 pp gap