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Enrollment
810
Elementary
DISTRICT 1,008 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORSYTH COUNTY·NCES 130222003923
Brookwood Elementary
2980 Vaughan Dr, Cumming, GA 30041 · (678) 965-5060 · Forsyth County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL810 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
55 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
14%
112 students
DISTRICT 22% · STATE 74%
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 | 12 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 103 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 97 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 130 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 141 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 142 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 185 | 23% |
This year's kindergarten class (103) is 44% smaller than its 5th grade class (185).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 71% · 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
Brookwood Elementary→South Forsyth Middle School
Based on published attendance-zone data from Forsyth County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
69.1%
GA avg 40.1% . -5.5pp since 2021
Math
83.4%
GA avg 44.6% . -2.3pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 83 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.1% | 83.4% |
| 2023-24 | 69.3% | 84.2% |
| 2022-23 | 74.0% | 85.2% |
| 2021-22 | 74.6% | 85.7% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. 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
75.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.2%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% typical for Georgia 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 Georgia'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 Brookwood Elementary
Brookwood Elementary's state test result (75.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brookwood Elementary this school | 810 | 13.8% | 75.7% |
| Midway Elementary School Alpharetta | 1,022 | 15.8% | 71.5% |
| Ocee Elementary School Alpharetta | 694 | 17.4% | 72.4% |
| Riverside Elementary School Suwanee | 919 | 22.6% | 82.3% |
| Haw Creek Elementary Cumming | 926 | 12.0% | 71.7% |
| Mashburn Elementary School Cumming | 976 | 23.2% | 65.4% |
Matched among Georgia 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 Brookwood Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Forsyth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.7% | #47 of 1,208 | #6 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 83.4% | #28 of 1,215 ▼ 5 | #3 of 23 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.1% | #78 of 1,215 ▲ 8 | #6 of 23 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.9pp | #185 of 1,183 | #4 of 22 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 810 | #218 of 1,324 | #20 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #1,019 of 1,301 | #12 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.2% | #368 of 1,301 | #11 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 13.8% | #1,276 of 1,312 | #19 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.9% | #153 of 854 | #4 of 14 |
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
810
-182 (-18%) vs 2020
+3% since 2010-11, when it was 790
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 17.4:1
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 | 810 | 55.3 | 14.7:1 | 14% (112) |
| 2023-24 | 855 | 55.4 | 15.4:1 | 13% (109) |
| 2022-23 | 926 | 55.2 | 16.8:1 | 6% (52) |
| 2020-21 | 992 | 57 | 17.4:1 | 6% (59) |
| 2017-18 | 1,078 | 60.2 | 17.9:1 | 5% (49) |
| 2015-16 | 1,038 | 61 | 17.0:1 | 4% (46) |
| 2010-11 | 790 | 45 | 17.6:1 | 5% (42) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Brookwood Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 25% (1,078 to 810); teachers down 8% (60.2 to 55.3).
About Brookwood Elementary
Brookwood Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school located in Cumming, Georgia. Total enrollment is 810 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Georgia have about 605 students on average; enrollment here is 34% higher.
Forsyth County has 54,864 students in 42 schools, and Brookwood Elementary is one of those schools.
The largest racial or ethnic group at Brookwood Elementary is Asian, with 46% of students. The remaining shares are 38% White, 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 2% Black. Forsyth County as a whole is about 20% Asian, so the school's share is higher. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 63%.
There are 55.3 full-time-equivalent teachers at Brookwood Elementary, giving a ratio of 14.7:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Georgia is 13.3:1. A total of 112 students, or 14%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Brookwood Elementary is 5.5 points above its prediction. Actual: 75.7%. Predicted: 70.2%.
Forsyth County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $143,784, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and about 3% of people live in poverty. Forsyth County's 42 public schools enroll about 54,864 students and include Brookwood Elementary.
Big Creek Elementary School is about 1.5 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of Brookwood Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. Brookwood Elementary is 6th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 810 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 992. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 17.4:1 to 14.7:1.
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Forsyth County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
267,287
Census ACS
Median income
$143,784
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
42
54,864 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Forsyth County
- Lambert High SchoolHigh · 3,249 students
- South Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,634 students
- Denmark High SchoolHigh · 2,527 students
- West Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,503 students
- Forsyth Central High SchoolHigh · 2,457 students
- North Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,151 students
Other schools in Cumming
- South Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,634 students
- West Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,503 students
- Forsyth Central High SchoolHigh · 2,457 students
- North Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,151 students
- Sawnee Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,591 students
- Lakeside Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,513 students
Other Brookwood Elementary schools
13 other US public schools in 10 states are named Brookwood Elementary. Brookwood Elementary is the 3rd largest of the 14.
- Brookwood Elementary SchoolSnellville, GA · 1,422 students
- Brookwood Elementary SchoolDalton, GA · 688 students
- Brookwood Elementary SchoolGrovetown, GA · 559 students
- Brookwood Elementary SchoolLevittown, PA · 975 students
- Brookwood Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 792 students
Nearby schools
- Big Creek Elementary School1.5 mi · 745
- Findley Oaks Elementary School2.2 mi · 585
- Lake Windward Elementary School2.3 mi · 672
- South Forsyth Middle School2.3 mi · 1,319
- Abbotts Hill Elementary School2.6 mi · 508
- Lambert High School2.6 mi · 3,249
Frequently asked questions
About Brookwood ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Brookwood Elementary?
Brookwood Elementary enrolls approximately 810 students in grades PK-05.
Is Brookwood Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Brookwood Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Brookwood Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Brookwood Elementary is approximately 14.7:1 (55 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Brookwood Elementary?
At Brookwood Elementary, the student body is approximately 38% White, 8% Hispanic, 2% Black, 46% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Brookwood Elementary public or private?
Brookwood Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Forsyth County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.