Brookside Elementary

Brookside Elementary, a heavily attended primary school in RAMSEY, Minnesota, operated by Anoka-Hennepin School District, educates 779 students, covering grades K through 5. That puts it 126% above the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

Anoka-Hennepin School District comprises 53 schools with combined enrollment of 38,746 students; Brookside Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Brookside Elementary logs that White students make up the majority at 73%. Other groups include 8% Asian, 7% multiracial, 7% Black, 5% Hispanic. Compared to Anoka County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, The school employs 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Brookside Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 27% of students at Brookside Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Anoka County's rate of about 42%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Brookside Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.6%; this one delivers 61.7%.

In the broader community, census data for Anoka County shows median household income runs about $101,869, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Anoka County runs 145 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,656 students), of which Brookside Elementary is one.

PACT CHARTER SECONDARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Brookside Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Brookside Elementary at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 48.2%.

Brookside Elementary operates from a small-town location.

On this page, members of the Brookside Elementary community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.