Brookwood Elementary

Brookwood Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, part of Kentwood Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 370 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 16 schools in Kentwood Public Schools (9,536 students total), Brookwood Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Brookwood Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Black (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 20% White, 13% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Kent County as a whole is about 10% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Brookwood Elementary has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Kent County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Brookwood Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.5%, the actual is 34.6%, a residual of +2.1 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Kent County indicate median household income runs about $82,631, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Brookwood Elementary is one of 239 public schools in Kent County (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students).

The closest other public school is Valleywood Middle School, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Brookwood Elementary at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 38.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 8%: 342 students in 2018 compared to 370 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 27% to 20%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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