Brooklyn Center Elementary School

Set in BROOKLYN CENTER, Minnesota, Brooklyn Center Elementary School is an expansive elementary school, part of Brooklyn Center Community Schools. It teaches 708 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so Brooklyn Center Elementary School sits 106% above that benchmark.

Brooklyn Center Community Schools comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,174 students; Brooklyn Center Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Brooklyn Center Elementary School lists that 46% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 7% multiracial, 7% White. The wider county runs roughly 13% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Brooklyn Center Elementary School reports 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Brooklyn Center Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hennepin County (around 43%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Brooklyn Center Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 22.1%; actual is 7.8%, a gap of -14.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Hennepin County) reports that median household earnings sit near $97,653, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Brooklyn Center Elementary School is one of 496 public schools in Hennepin County (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students).

The closest other public school is Brooklyn Center ECSE Age 3 - 5, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Brooklyn Center Elementary School. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Brooklyn Center Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 10.1%.

Brooklyn Center Elementary School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 37%: 1,117 students in 2018 compared to 708 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 22% to 29%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for Brooklyn Center Elementary School typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.