BROOKLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BROOKLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a sprawling elementary-level community in BROOKLAND, Arkansas, operated by BROOKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 728 students spanning grades 1 through 3. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 418 students each, so BROOKLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 74% bigger than that benchmark.

BROOKLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 5 schools operated by BROOKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that instructs 3,213 students overall.

On the student-mix side, BROOKLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 5% Black. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 72%.

On the resource side, On paper, BROOKLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.8:1. The state averages around 16.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Craighead County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BROOKLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.7%, the actual is 41.1%, a residual of -3.6 points.

In the broader community, census data for Craighead County shows the typical household earns roughly $59,548 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. BROOKLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 37 public schools in Craighead County (combined enrollment of about 20,332 students).

BROOKLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BROOKLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 26.5%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. BROOKLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 799 (now 728). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 91% to 84% over that span.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.