Melbourne Schools Guide: Public Schools, Colleges and Private Schools

Brevard Public Schools runs Melbourne's public schools from its district office at 2700 Judge Fran Jamieson Way in Viera, phone 321-633-1000, extension 11500 (Brevard Public Schools).

Enrollment for Melbourne public schools runs through the district's Ready Set Enroll page (Brevard Public Schools enrollment). Each Melbourne campus keeps its own page on the district site with an address, a phone line and its programs, and those pages are the quickest way to reach a school office (Melbourne High School; Eau Gallie High School).

The Melbourne public schools guide profiles Melbourne's public schools and explains how Melbourne fits in the Brevard district. Last verified: October 14, 2026, on the Brevard Public Schools school websites.

Melbourne's best known public high school is Melbourne High School at 74 Bulldog Ave, an International Baccalaureate World School that hosts both the Diploma Program and the Career Program (Melbourne High School).

Melbourne High is large. Federal school data for 2024-2025 counts 2,210 students and 100.50 classroom teachers, with 572 ninth graders and 471 seniors (NCES Common Core of Data). That NCES record still shows the old melbourne.hs.brevard.k12.fl.us web address, so the school's current page on the Brevard Public Schools site is the one to use. The Melbourne High School guide covers the school's long history, its IB programs and the Bulldogs.

Eau Gallie High offers AICE Cambridge, which lets students earn college credit for classes taken on the high school campus, and its Health and Wellness Academy class of 2024 posted a 100 percent pass rate on the Certified Medical Assistant and EKG technician exams (Eau Gallie High School). Stone Magnet Middle, at 1101 E. University Blvd, takes applications for its Science Research program (Stone Magnet Middle).

Yes: Florida's controlled open enrollment law lets a Melbourne parent enroll a child in any Brevard public school that has not reached capacity, subject to class size limits (Florida Statutes 1002.31).

Section 1002.31 of the Florida Statutes defines controlled open enrollment as assigning students using the parents' preferred choice as a significant factor, and it requires each district school board, including Brevard's, to accept a student at a school with room (Florida Statutes 1002.31). For a Melbourne family the practical limit is capacity: the law requires each district to update its school capacity figures by grade level every 12 weeks and post them on its website (Florida Statutes 1002.31).

The Melbourne school choice programs guide walks through ELO and EPO applications and the choice programs in Melbourne, including West Shore Jr/Sr High, Stone Magnet Middle and the IB, AICE and academy programs.

Melbourne has two college campuses: Florida Institute of Technology, a private university on 130 subtropical acres on University Boulevard, and the Eastern Florida State College Melbourne Campus on Wickham Road (Florida Tech Facts and Figures; EFSC Melbourne Campus).

The Melbourne university first opened in 1958 under the name Brevard Engineering College, and its first president, Cape Canaveral physicist Jerome P. Keuper, led it until 1986. Florida Tech now has four colleges (Aeronautics, Business, the Nathan M. Bisk College of Engineering and Science, and Psychology and Liberal Arts) and more than 200 degree programs, with 424 faculty (Florida Tech). Its Patterson Botanical Garden holds Melbourne's original little red schoolhouse. The Florida Institute of Technology guide covers colleges, enrollment and rankings, and a separate guide tells how Brevard Engineering College grew into Florida Tech between 1958 and 1967.

The EFSC Melbourne Campus at 3865 Wickham Road sits next to the Maxwell C. King Center for the Performing Arts and houses the Public Safety Institute, the Health Sciences Institute and the college's on campus student housing (Eastern Florida State College). On October 13, 2025 the college opened the $20 million, 31,500 square foot Center for Innovative Technology Education on the Melbourne Campus for engineering technology, robotics and business programs (EFSC news release). The Eastern Florida State College Melbourne guide lists the buildings and programs.

Two long established Melbourne private schools are Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy, opened in 1957 as a parish day school, and Melbourne Central Catholic, which broke ground in 1961 as Brevard County's first Catholic high school (Holy Trinity history; MCC history).

Holy Trinity began at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Melbourne with six classrooms, an office and 90 students. In 2000 it added an Upper School for grades 7 to 12 on a 40 acre Pineda Campus, and the original Parish Campus became the Lower School for preschool through grade 6 (Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy).

Melbourne Central Catholic sits on 41 acres on East Florida Avenue in Melbourne. While the school was under construction its students used rented barracks shared with Brevard Engineering College across from the Melbourne Airport, a neat link to Florida Tech's own start, and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools fully accredited its first graduating class in 1965 (Melbourne Central Catholic). The Melbourne private schools guide adds Ascension Catholic School and Florida Preparatory Academy.

Seven Melbourne school guides sit under this hub, built on Brevard Public Schools, college and school sources (Brevard Public Schools; Florida Tech).