BROOKSIDE CHARTER MIDDLE SCHL

As a tight-knit middle school in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, BROOKSIDE CHARTER MIDDLE SCHL works with 225 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by BROOKSIDE CHARTER SCH.. Enrollment runs roughly 51% smaller than the state mean of about 461.

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

In terms of who attends, BROOKSIDE CHARTER MIDDLE SCHL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (85%). The remainder breaks down as 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Jackson County's rate of about 60%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BROOKSIDE CHARTER MIDDLE SCHL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 49.0%, a residual of -0.5 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $68,577 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Jackson County runs 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), of which BROOKSIDE CHARTER MIDDLE SCHL is one.

Nearest neighbor: BROOKSIDE CHARTER ELEMENTARY, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BROOKSIDE CHARTER MIDDLE SCHL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BROOKSIDE CHARTER MIDDLE SCHL at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 55.6%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site. BROOKSIDE CHARTER MIDDLE SCHL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BROOKSIDE CHARTER MIDDLE SCHL has rose 11%, going from 202 students in 2018 to 225 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment expanded from 80% to 85% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 10.5:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 today.

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