Brentwood Elementary School

Brentwood Elementary School, a reasonably sized elementary campus in Plainfield, Indiana, one of the schools within Plainfield Community School Corp, enrolls 420 students, covering grades K through 5.

Plainfield Community School Corp runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 5,917 students. Brentwood Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Brentwood Elementary School shows that 67% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 13% Hispanic, 12% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Hendricks County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Brentwood Elementary School shows 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Hendricks County's rate of about 39%.

With demographic context factored in, Brentwood Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Indiana schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 38.6%; actual is 54.6%, +16.0 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Hendricks County shows median household earnings sit near $101,144, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hendricks County runs 47 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,487 students), of which Brentwood Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Clarks Creek Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Brentwood Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Brentwood Elementary School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 54.1%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Brentwood Elementary School has shrank 5%, going from 443 students in 2018 to 420 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 83% to 67% over that span.

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