Brooks Elementary

Brooks Elementary operates as an average-sized elementary-level community in Windsor, California, overseen by Windsor Unified. Current enrollment sits at 493 students spanning grades 3 through 5.

Brooks Elementary is one of 8 schools operated by Windsor Unified, a district that works with 4,669 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Brooks Elementary records that 50% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 41% White, 6% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 50% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Brooks Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 49.5%; this one comes in at 30.4%, -19.1 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Sonoma County) logs that 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 Brooks Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Windsor Middle, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Brooks Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 36.1%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Brooks Elementary has climbed 9%, going from 454 students in 2018 to 493 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.2:1 in 2018 to 21.9:1 today.

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