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Enrollment
686
Elementary
DISTRICT 600 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087000921
BROOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
812 DEWOLF RD, BRANDON, FL 33511 · (813) 744-8184 · Hillsborough County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL686 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
321 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 25 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 90 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 102 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 103 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 128 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 118 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 120 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (120).
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on published attendance-zone data from HILLSBOROUGH. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
59.6%
FL avg 56.7% . -0.0pp since 2023
Math
63.7%
FL avg 58.9% . -6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.6% | 63.7% |
| 2023-24 | 59.7% | 69.7% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
61.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.7%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like BROOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BROOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (61.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 686 | 46.8% | 61.4% |
| NELSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DOVER | 630 | 48.1% | 50.5% |
| RED BUG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CASSELBERRY | 811 | 48.6% | 62.2% |
| VALRICO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VALRICO | 733 | 46.1% | 69.2% |
| PLUMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLEARWATER | 704 | 49.3% | 64.9% |
| STENSTROM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OVIEDO | 697 | 43.0% | 73.4% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where BROOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.4% | #804 of 2,136 | #52 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.7% | #929 of 2,149 ▼ 385 | #59 of 176 ▼ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.6% | #852 of 2,149 ▼ 118 | #54 of 176 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 686 | #757 of 2,267 | #65 of 182 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #641 of 2,077 | #47 of 164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.1% | #347 of 2,108 | #49 of 169 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.8% | #1,395 of 2,188 | #103 of 174 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -30.1% | #190 of 1,374 | #16 of 124 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
686
-120 (-15%) vs 2020
-37% since 1990-91, when it was 1,090
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 13.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 686 | 46.1 | 14.9:1 | 47% (321) |
| 2023-24 | 759 | 50 | 15.2:1 | 49% (372) |
| 2022-23 | 802 | 52 | 15.4:1 | 48% (387) |
| 2020-21 | 806 | 60 | 13.4:1 | 60% (484) |
| 2017-18 | 982 | 71 | 13.8:1 | 51% (501) |
| 2015-16 | 900 | 73 | 12.3:1 | 47% (420) |
| 2010-11 | 964 | 68 | 14.2:1 | 39% (373) |
| 2000-01 | 1,012 | 51 | 19.8:1 | 26% (264) |
| 1990-91 | 1,090 | 57 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BROOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About BROOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BROOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students in BRANDON, Florida, as a mid-sized elementary school. The school covers pre-K through 5 and reported 686 students in 2024-25.
In HILLSBOROUGH, 300 schools enroll a combined 221,318 students.
About 42% of students at BROOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are White, the largest single group. The rest of enrollment is 35% Hispanic, 11% Black, 7% multiracial, and 5% Asian. Among all residents of Hillsborough County, the White share is about 51%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 68%.
For every teacher at BROOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, there are about 14.9 students; the school has 46.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 47%.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, BROOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL would be expected to post about 57.7%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 61.4%.
In Hillsborough County, median household income comes to about $79,540, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. The county's public schools total 320, with about 223,193 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, BURNS MIDDLE SCHOOL, is about 0.7 miles. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 53.2%; BROOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's is 61.4%, ranking 4th of 9.
The federal government classifies BROOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's location as Suburb: Large.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 686, from 806 in 2020-21. The ratio was 13.4:1 in 2020-21 and 14.9:1 in 2024-25.
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Hillsborough County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,522,748
Census ACS
Median income
$79,540
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
320
223,193 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HILLSBOROUGH
- FLORIDA CONNECTIONS ACADEMYCombined · 5,748 students
- JULE F SUMNER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,602 students
- NEWSOME HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,157 students
- ALONSO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,863 students
- PLANT CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,572 students
- LENNARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,553 students
Other schools in BRANDON
- BRANDON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,835 students
- BURNS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,108 students
- MANN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 977 students
- MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 687 students
- MCLANE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 652 students
- YATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 548 students
Nearby schools
- BURNS MIDDLE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 1,108
- NAVIGATOR ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP VALRICO1.8 mi · 906
- YATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 548
- BLOOMINGDALE HIGH SCHOOL1.8 mi · 2,208
- KINGSWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 437
- BUCKHORN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 667
Frequently asked questions
About BROOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend BROOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BROOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 686 students in grades PK-05.
Is BROOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
BROOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does BROOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
BROOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 46 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.9:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at BROOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At BROOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 42% White, 35% Hispanic, 11% Black, 5% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is BROOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
BROOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by HILLSBOROUGH.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.