BROOKSIDE CHARTER ELEMENTARY

Set in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, BROOKSIDE CHARTER ELEMENTARY is a substantial elementary school, one of the schools within BROOKSIDE CHARTER SCH.. It caters to 575 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 83% bigger than the state mean of about 315.

Within BROOKSIDE CHARTER SCH., which oversees 2 schools and 800 students, BROOKSIDE CHARTER ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

On demographics, BROOKSIDE CHARTER ELEMENTARY logs that nearly all students (82%) are Black. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% White. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.2:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Jackson County (around 60%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, BROOKSIDE CHARTER ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 51.3%, a residual of +1.8 points.

In the area at large, Jackson County reports that median household earnings sit near $68,577, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jackson County runs 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), of which BROOKSIDE CHARTER ELEMENTARY is one.

The closest other public school is BROOKSIDE CHARTER MIDDLE SCHL, roughly 0.0 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), BROOKSIDE CHARTER ELEMENTARY ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 55.1%.

The school occupies a city-core site. BROOKSIDE CHARTER ELEMENTARY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 34%: 428 students in 2018 compared to 575 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 3% to 9% over that span.

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