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Brookdale Elementary School
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 17 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 23 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% typical for Illinois 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 Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Brookdale Elementary School
Brookdale Elementary School, a moderately sized K-5 school in Naperville, Illinois, overseen by Indian Prairie CUSD 204, hosts 462 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 21% above the state mean of about 381.
Indian Prairie CUSD 204 runs 32 schools in total, collectively educating 26,108 students. Brookdale Elementary School is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Brookdale Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 20% Asian, 17% Black, 14% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 65% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Around 30% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Brookdale Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.0%.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (DuPage County) shows that median household income runs about $112,096, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, DuPage County runs 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,557 students), of which Brookdale Elementary School is one.
Thayer J Hill Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Brookdale Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 63.8%.
The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Brookdale Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 24% since 2018, when it stood at 607 (now 462). White enrollment moved from 47% to 42% across the same window.
On the community side, members of the Brookdale Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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