Brooktree Elementary

As a modestly sized primary school in San Jose, California, Brooktree Elementary works with 387 students from grades K through 5, run under Berryessa Union Elementary.

Berryessa Union Elementary comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 5,907 students; Brooktree Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Brooktree Elementary logs that 58% of the student body identifies as Asian. The remainder breaks down as 30% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% White, 2% Black. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 41% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.5:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Brooktree Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.3%, the actual is 50.1%, a residual of -5.2 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Santa Clara County indicate median household earnings sit near $164,281, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Santa Clara County's 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), Brooktree Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Northwood Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Brooktree Elementary comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.2%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 13%: 446 students in 2018 compared to 387 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 69% to 58% across the same window.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.