Brookfield Elementary

Located at 401 Jones Ave., in Oakland, California, Brookfield Elementary is a micro-enrollment elementary school that enrolls 133 students (grades K through 5), operated by Oakland Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 71% below typical.

Oakland Unified comprises 84 schools with combined enrollment of 33,973 students; Brookfield Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Brookfield Elementary lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 23% Black, 7% multiracial, 5% White, 5% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Brookfield Elementary lists 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Brookfield Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Alameda County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Brookfield Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.9%, the actual is 9.4%, a residual of -10.6 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Alameda County put the typical household earns roughly $129,367 per year, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Alameda County's 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), Brookfield Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Lighthouse Community Charter High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Brookfield Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 16.6%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 55%: 296 students in 2018 compared to 133 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 29% to 23% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 24.2:1 in 2025.

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