South Lake Elementary, Titusville FL

Original Research by School Decision on South Lake Elementary

South Lake Elementary sits on Garden Street in Titusville, on Florida's Space Coast, serving kindergarten through sixth grade as a regular public school in the Brevard County district. The enrollment is a modest but healthy size for a K-6 building, with classes spread fairly evenly across grade levels.

The academic picture is one of the stronger stories here. On Florida's FAST assessments, math proficiency climbs steadily as students move up through the grades, starting solid in third grade and reaching very high levels by sixth. ELA follows a similar arc: third grade proficiency is the lowest point in the data, sitting in the low-to-mid range, but by fifth and sixth grade the school is posting results well above what many Florida elementaries show. Science proficiency at fifth grade is also strong. Parents of younger children may want to ask the school directly about early literacy supports, since the third-grade ELA result is the one place where the data suggests students may need additional scaffolding before the pattern of improvement takes hold. Trend data across prior years was not available in the payload, so it is not possible to say whether these results represent improvement, stability, or a single year's snapshot.

About three in ten students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, meaning the school draws from a mix of economic backgrounds without being heavily concentrated in either direction. The student body is predominantly white, with Hispanic, multiracial, and Black students each present in smaller shares. IEP and English learner counts were not reported in the data, so those dimensions of student support cannot be characterized here.

The school is not a charter and no magnet designation is indicated. Program offerings were not reported in the data, so parents interested in specific enrichment tracks, gifted programs, or intervention services should ask the school directly.

On the housing side, the Titusville zip code where South Lake Elementary sits shows home values noticeably below the Florida statewide benchmark and close to or modestly below national figures, with values having edged down slightly over the past year. Rents have also softened modestly. For families weighing a move, the area offers relative affordability compared to much of the state, though the estimated monthly cost of ownership at current mortgage rates is still a real consideration. The rent-to-income picture is more comfortable than many Florida markets. Detailed context about Titusville's character, employers, and development activity was not available from the research conducted, so that local color is left out rather than guessed at.

The neighbor comparison framework flagged that the county's district count was too small to produce a meaningful proficiency ranking relative to other Brevard County districts, so that positioning is not available here. District-level changes from Brevard were also not captured in the research.

What the data does show is an elementary school where academic results, especially in math and the upper grades, are genuinely strong by Florida standards, where the ELA trajectory in early grades is worth watching, and where housing costs give families more room than much of the state.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 372%

School 72% · District 59% · ▲ 13 pts above district

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

Grade 474%

School 74% · District 60% · ▲ 14 pts above district

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

Grade 579%

School 79% · District 57% · ▲ 22 pts above district

▲ 24 pts above state median · ▲ 24 pts above county median

Grade 688%

School 88% · District 72% · ▲ 16 pts above district

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

English language arts

Grade 362%

School 62% · District 58% · ▲ 4 pts above district

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

Grade 466%

School 66% · District 58% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

Grade 579%

School 79% · District 60% · ▲ 19 pts above district

▲ 25 pts above state median · ▲ 20 pts above county median

Grade 683%

School 83% · District 70% · ▲ 13 pts above district

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

Science

Grade 582%

School 82% · District 60% · ▲ 22 pts above district

▲ 29 pts above state median · ▲ 21 pts above 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-income36%Higher-income68%32 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income71%Higher-income64%8 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income78%Higher-income79%1 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income90%Higher-income81%9 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income55%Higher-income77%22 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income86%Higher-income68%17 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income78%Higher-income79%1 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income95%Higher-income85%10 pp gap