Brook Hill Elementary

Located at 1850 Vallejo St., in Santa Rosa, California, Brook Hill Elementary is a modestly sized elementary-level community that hosts 279 students (grades K through 6), operated by Santa Rosa Elementary. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 40% smaller than typical.

Brook Hill Elementary is one of 12 schools operated by Santa Rosa Elementary, a district that instructs 4,800 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Brook Hill Elementary lists that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 8% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% Native American. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

In terms of school funding signals, Brook Hill Elementary logs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.6:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Sonoma County (around 51%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Brook Hill Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 31.4%; this one comes in at 15.7%, -15.8 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Sonoma County indicate the typical household earns roughly $104,674 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Sonoma County runs 184 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students), of which Brook Hill Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Santa Rosa French-American Charter (SRFACS), roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Brook Hill Elementary. On composite proficiency, Brook Hill Elementary comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.1%.

Brook Hill Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Looking at the recent track record. Brook Hill Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 39% since 2018, when it stood at 460 (now 279). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 today.

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