Brooklyn Park Elementary

As a mid-sized elementary-level community in Baltimore, Maryland, Brooklyn Park Elementary teaches 463 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Anne Arundel County Public Schools.

Brooklyn Park Elementary is one of 125 schools operated by Anne Arundel County Public Schools, a district that caters to 85,029 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Brooklyn Park Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 29% White, 19% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Anne Arundel County as a whole is about 11% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 84% of students at Brooklyn Park Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Anne Arundel County (around 42%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Brooklyn Park Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.6%; this one delivers 23.8%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Anne Arundel County put median household earnings sit near $124,911, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Brooklyn Park Elementary is one of 129 public schools in Anne Arundel County (combined enrollment of about 85,074 students).

Nearest neighbor: Park Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Brooklyn Park Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Brooklyn Park Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 23.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Brooklyn Park Elementary's enrollment has grew 7% since 2018, when it stood at 431 (now 463). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 16% to 45% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Brooklyn Park Elementary community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.