Brookwood Elem

Brookwood Elem, a moderately sized K-5 school in Leawood, Kansas, run under Shawnee Mission Pub Sch, educates 466 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 49% bigger than the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 313 students.

Shawnee Mission Pub Sch runs 45 schools in total, collectively educating 26,330 students. Brookwood Elem is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Brookwood Elem records that nearly all students (88%) are White. Other groups include 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Johnson County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Brookwood Elem has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Brookwood Elem higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 9% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Johnson County's rate of about 27%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Brookwood Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.1%, the actual is 69.7%, a residual of +11.5 points.

In the broader community, Johnson County reports that median household earnings sit near $109,208, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Johnson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students), of which Brookwood Elem is one.

The closest other public school is Trailwood Elem, roughly 1.5 miles away. 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 Elem ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 51.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Brookwood Elem has ticked up 21%, going from 385 students in 2018 to 466 in 2025.

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