Brookwood Elementary School

Brookwood Elementary School is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary campuss in Dalton, Georgia, part of Dalton Public Schools, with 688 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Dalton Public Schools runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 7,619 students. Brookwood Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Brookwood Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 34% White, 6% Asian, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 37%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Brookwood Elementary School has 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Whitfield County runs at roughly 83%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Brookwood Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.3%, the actual is 49.0%, a residual of +0.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Whitfield County shows the typical household earns roughly $67,070 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Brookwood Elementary School is one of 33 public schools in Whitfield County (combined enrollment of about 19,570 students).

Nearest neighbor: City Park Elementary School, around 1.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Brookwood Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 33.4%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 3%: 710 students in 2018 compared to 688 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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