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BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a cozy elementary-level community in PENSACOLA, Florida, one of the schools within ESCAMBIA. Current enrollment sits at 390 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 35% below that benchmark.
Within ESCAMBIA, which oversees 66 schools and 36,795 students, BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that Black students make up the majority at 56%. The remainder reads as 25% White, 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 21% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, The school reports having 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 78% of students at BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Escambia County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.2%; this one delivers 36.3%.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Escambia County) shows that median household income runs about $67,500, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Escambia County's 71 public schools (combined enrollment of about 37,056 students), BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: MONTCLAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.3%.
BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a city-core location.
Over the past 7-year window. BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 25% since 2018, when it stood at 523 (now 390). The Black share of enrollment rose from 49% to 56% over that span.
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