Brookdale Elementary School

Brookdale Elementary School is an elementary campus of small scale in Bloomfield, New Jersey, run under Bloomfield Township School District, works with 342 students in grades K through 6.

Across the 11 schools in Bloomfield Township School District (6,400 students total), Brookdale Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Brookdale Elementary School lists that 55% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder breaks down as 25% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 6% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 30% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 13% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Essex County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, Brookdale Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.3%, the actual is 71.3%, a residual of +12.0 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Essex County) logs that median household income runs about $80,789, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Essex County runs 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), of which Brookdale Elementary School is one.

Oak View Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Brookdale Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Brookdale Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 56.1%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 338 students in 2018 compared to 342 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 60% to 55% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.