Brookside Elementary

Set in San Anselmo, California, Brookside Elementary is a modestly sized elementary-level community, one of the schools within Ross Valley Elementary. It hosts 278 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Brookside Elementary sits 40% smaller than that benchmark.

Brookside Elementary is one of 5 schools operated by Ross Valley Elementary, a district that instructs 1,679 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Brookside Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 14% Hispanic, 10% multiracial.

On the resource side, On paper, Brookside Elementary has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.6:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 10% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Marin County's rate of about 35%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Brookside Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.3%, the actual is 71.6%, a residual of -1.7 points.

Across the wider county, Marin County reports that the typical household earns roughly $149,091 per year, about 61% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Marin County's 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,867 students), Brookside Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Archie Williams High 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. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Brookside Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 67.4%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Brookside Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 320 (now 278). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 83% to 73%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 22.2:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 today.

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