Brookwood Elementary School

Brookwood Elementary School, a mid-sized primary school in Brookwood, Alabama, part of Tuscaloosa County, instructs 631 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 480 students each, so Brookwood Elementary School sits 31% bigger than that benchmark.

Tuscaloosa County comprises 35 schools with combined enrollment of 19,278 students; Brookwood Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Brookwood Elementary School records that White students make up the majority at 77%. The remainder breaks down as 10% Black, 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Brookwood Elementary School has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Brookwood Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.3%, the actual is 48.8%, a residual of +5.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Tuscaloosa County shows median household earnings sit near $66,231, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Tuscaloosa County's 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,508 students), Brookwood Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Brookwood High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Brookwood Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Brookwood Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 39.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Looking at the recent track record. Brookwood Elementary School's enrollment has ticked up 6% since 2018, when it stood at 594 (now 631). The White share of enrollment decreased from 86% to 77% over that span.

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