Brookside Elementary

Brookside Elementary is an elementary campus of medium-sized scale in Oak Park, California, operated by Oak Park Unified, enrolling 556 students in grades K through 5.

Oak Park Unified runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 4,437 students. Brookside Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Brookside Elementary records that 68% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 15% Asian, 9% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. By comparison, Ventura County as a whole is about 52% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Brookside Elementary has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Brookside Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 8% of students at Brookside Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Ventura County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Brookside Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 74.6%; this one delivers 76.7%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Ventura County indicate median household earnings sit near $109,797, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Ventura County's 238 public schools (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students), Brookside Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Oak Park Independent is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Brookside Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Brookside Elementary at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 74.3%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 570 students in 2018 compared to 556 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share contracted from 25% to 15%.

On this page, members of the Brookside Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.