Longleaf Elementary School

Longleaf Elementary sits at 4290 N Wickham Rd in Melbourne, FL 32935, and its main line is 321-242-4700.

The school website's contact block lists that North Wickham Road address with 321-242-4700 as the phone and 321-242-4708 as the fax (Longleaf Elementary website).

Three Florida public schools share the Longleaf name in the federal locator, and only one is in Brevard County: longleaf elementary school, 4290 N WICKHAM RD, MELBOURNE, FL 32935, (321) 242-4700, with 578 students in grades PK-6 (NCES search for Longleaf). The other two are in Pensacola, Escambia County, and New Port Richey, Pasco County, which matters when a search engine or a state report mixes them up. The 578 figure is a 2024-2025 count, while the street address and phone come from the locator's preliminary 2025-2026 directory.

In the state's grade file, the Melbourne campus is Brevard district 05, school number 3131, school type 01, Elementary (state school grades workbook). That school number is the safest way to pick out the Wickham Road Longleaf when reading statewide files, since the Escambia and Pasco schools of the same name sit further down the same workbook under their own district numbers.

Longleaf Elementary earned an A for 2025-26, with 572 points across 8 components and 72 percent of the total points possible.

The same row, in a state school grades workbook the state dates September 1, 2026, records that 99 percent of eligible Longleaf students sat the tests. Elementary schools need 62% of points or greater for an A on the scale printed at the top of the workbook. Florida's grading law calls an A school one making excellent progress and sets a testing floor of 95 percent of eligible students for every school, a floor the Longleaf figure clears (Florida Statutes, section 1008.34).

The district figures come from row 9 of the 2025-26 district grades workbook, where Brevard earned an A at 68 percent of possible points; the district file notes that its scale mirrors the one for combination schools, with an A at 65% or greater (FLDOE district grades workbook). The Wickham Road school is graded on the elementary scale, not that district scale.

Longleaf's grade 3 English Language Arts line of 84 matters beyond the school grade, because third grade reading also governs promotion. Florida's student progression law forbids assigning a student to a grade level based solely on age or other factors that amount to social promotion, sets a Level 2 or higher on the grade 3 statewide ELA assessment as the mark for moving to grade 4, and says a student may not be retained more than once in grade 3 (Florida Statutes, section 1008.25). The same law requires that a student promoted to grade 4 with a good cause exemption receive intensive reading instruction and intervention, so a Longleaf family whose child is promoted that way can expect added reading support in grade 4.

The Longleaf row lists 59 on both lowest 25 percent lines, reading and math (state school grades workbook). Those two lines follow the students who ranked in the bottom quarter on the previous year's state tests in reading or math, and report what share of that group made Learning Gains, as section 1008.34 sets out (section 1008.34).

Longleaf's row in the state file shows a B in 1999, an A in 2000, a B in 2001 and an A in every graded year printed from 2002 through 2026.

Two cautions apply when reading that history. The workbook has no 2020 column, and Longleaf's Grade 2021 cell is empty; and the 2015 and 2023 columns are headed Informational Baseline Grade rather than Grade (state school grades workbook). The file records letters only, without any explanation of the 1999 and 2001 B grades.

Longleaf's A carries a practical consequence under state law as well as a label. Under section 1008.34, an A school such as Longleaf may be given wider control over how it spends its whole budget, whatever the funding source (section 1008.34). The same section has the State Board of Education adopt, by rule, the grading scale that sets the percentage of points needed for each letter, and the elementary version of that scale is the note at the top of the workbook.

No: the 2025-26 state file lists Longleaf Elementary as neither Title I nor a charter school, with 25.7 percent of students economically disadvantaged.

Row 160 reads NO in the Charter School column, NO in the Title I column and 25.7 in the Percent of Economically Disadvantaged Students column (state school grades workbook). Its Alternative/ESE Center School cell reads N, so Longleaf is graded as a regular elementary school on the scale shown above.

Longleaf's menus still point families to meal and care options. The Cafeteria menu links BPS Food and Nutrition, School Menus and Classroom Party Order Forms, and the Parent Resources list links the Brevard After School Program (Longleaf Elementary website). The same Parents and Students menu holds the Arrival and Dismissal Procedures, the 2026-2027 School Supply List and the 2026-2027 Code of Conduct, plus VPK and Water Safety pages.

The Longleaf website names four programs on its home page: summer reading, Morning Mile, Art Club and Orchestra, and its menus add a science and engineering fair and an honor society.

Under Clubs and Activities, the Longleaf menu also lists Media, Physical Education, Music, Art and the National Elementary Honor Society (Longleaf Elementary website). The About Us menu links a Longleaf Newsletter, the School Advisory Council, the School Improvement Plan, PBIS, the PTO, a School Bio and a School Data Profile, and the library pages cover the Destiny media center catalog, Beanstack classroom libraries and a page titled New Library Books for Stakeholder Input.

Because Morning Mile, Art Club and Orchestra all meet before the first bell, the morning drop-off schedule on the Arrival and Dismissal Procedures page is the one to check first for a child joining any of them (Longleaf Elementary website).

Longleaf's Parents and Students menu includes a Purple Star page, and Florida's Purple Star Campus law sets out what a participating school must provide for military families.

The link sits in the Parent Resources group alongside the Brevard After School Program and BPS At-Home Math Resources (Longleaf Elementary website). Section 1003.051 lists the baseline duties of a school in the Department of Education's Purple Star Campus program: naming a military liaison from its staff, posting military family resources on the school website, running a transition program led by students, training staff on issues military students face, and holding back 5 percent or more of controlled open enrollment seats for military students (Florida Statutes, section 1003.051).

Dependents of current active duty service members count as military students under the statute, as do dependents of former members of the armed services, of a reserve component and of the Florida National Guard (section 1003.051). A Longleaf family that fits that definition can start with the school's Purple Star page and then call the office at 321-242-4700 to ask how the campus takes part and who serves as liaison.

Last verified: October 21, 2026, with the Wickham Road school's home page, the three-school NCES Longleaf search, row 160 and the elementary scale of the FLDOE school grades workbook, Brevard's district row, and sections 1003.051, 1008.25 and 1008.34 of the Florida Statutes all fetched anew that day.