Enrollment
342
Elementary
DISTRICT 378 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340183001988
Brookdale Elementary School
1230 Broad Street, Bloomfield, NJ 07003 · (973) 680-8520 · Essex County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL342 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 88% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.2:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
13%
43 students
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 41%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 59 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 56 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 39 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 43 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is 37% larger than its 6th grade class (43).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Bloomfield Township School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
82.1%
NJ avg 53.1% . +2.9pp since 2023
Math
74.7%
NJ avg 41.6% . +10.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.1% | 74.7% |
| 2023-24 | 79.2% | 63.8% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
71.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.3%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Brookdale Elementary School
Brookdale Elementary School's state test result (71.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brookdale Elementary School this school | 342 | 12.6% | 71.3% |
| Radcliffe School NUTLEY | 342 | 13.5% | 57.6% |
| Community Park School PRINCETON | 316 | 17.1% | 63.3% |
| Memorial School Emerson | 374 | 9.4% | 51.0% |
| Jefferson Elementary School SUCCASUNNA | 346 | 16.2% | 51.7% |
| East Brook Elementary School PARK RIDGE | 314 | 10.2% | 65.2% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Brookdale Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Essex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.3% | #141 of 1,290 | #18 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.7% | #165 of 1,319 ▲ 141 | #21 of 141 ▲ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.1% | #69 of 1,319 ▲ 27 | #10 of 141 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 342 | #933 of 1,562 | #110 of 162 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #580 of 1,390 | #24 of 140 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.1% | #416 of 1,392 | #28 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 12.6% | #1,189 of 1,481 | #112 of 142 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.2% | #500 of 545 | #56 of 61 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
342
+23 (+7%) vs 2020
+27% since 1990-91, when it was 269
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 11.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 342 | 31.5 | 10.9:1 | 13% (43) |
| 2023-24 | 331 | 33.5 | 9.9:1 | 7% (22) |
| 2022-23 | 316 | 30.5 | 10.4:1 | 6% (18) |
| 2020-21 | 319 | 29 | 11.0:1 | 4% (12) |
| 2017-18 | 338 | 28.3 | 11.9:1 | 5% (17) |
| 2015-16 | 358 | 25 | 14.3:1 | 9% (31) |
| 2010-11 | 303 | 15 | 20.2:1 | 7% (22) |
| 2000-01 | 272 | 15 | 18.1:1 | 5% (14) |
| 1990-91 | 269 | 15 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Brookdale Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (338 to 342); teachers up 11% (28.3 to 31.5).
About Brookdale Elementary School
Brookdale Elementary School is a small elementary school based in Bloomfield, New Jersey. It teaches 342 students in kindergarten through 6.
Brookdale Elementary School is one school in an 11-school district, Bloomfield Township School District, which enrolls 6,400 students.
The student body at Brookdale Elementary School is 55% White. It is also 25% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 6% Black, and 5% multiracial. Essex County's residents are about 30% White, 25 points below the school's share. A diversity index of 62% means there is a 62% chance two randomly chosen students at Brookdale Elementary School are from different groups.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 10.9:1. The school has 31.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey is close to this figure. In all, 13% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Essex County averages 54%, higher than here.
Brookdale Elementary School earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 88% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Test results at Brookdale Elementary School are 12.0 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (71.3% actual, 59.3% predicted).
The county, Essex County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $80,789, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. The county's public schools total 249, with about 145,473 students.
About 0.6 miles separate Brookdale Elementary School from the closest public school, Oak View Elementary School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 56.1% proficiency; Brookdale Elementary School posts 71.3%.
Brookdale Elementary School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 342, from 319 in 2020-21.
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Essex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
863,002
Census ACS
Median income
$80,789
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
249
145,473 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bloomfield Township School District
- Bloomfield High SchoolHigh · 2,055 students
- Bloomfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 944 students
- Fairview Elementary SchoolElementary · 499 students
- Demarest Elementary SchoolElementary · 482 students
- Berkeley Elementary SchoolElementary · 453 students
- Oak View Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
Other schools in Bloomfield
- Bloomfield High SchoolHigh · 2,055 students
- Bloomfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 944 students
- Fairview Elementary SchoolElementary · 499 students
- Demarest Elementary SchoolElementary · 482 students
- Berkeley Elementary SchoolElementary · 453 students
- Oak View Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
Other Brookdale Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Brookdale Elementary. Brookdale Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 4.
- Brookdale ElementaryTacoma, WA · 483 students
- Brookdale Elementary SchoolNaperville, IL · 462 students
- Brookdale ElementaryOrangeburg, SC · 215 students
Nearby schools
- Oak View Elementary School0.6 mi · 399
- Bloomfield Middle School0.6 mi · 944
- Demarest Elementary School0.6 mi · 482
- Spring Garden School1.0 mi · 606
- Northeast Elementary School1.1 mi · 391
- Radcliffe School1.1 mi · 342
Frequently asked questions
About Brookdale Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Brookdale Elementary School?
Brookdale Elementary School enrolls approximately 342 students in grades KG-06.
Is Brookdale Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Brookdale Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Brookdale Elementary School have?
Brookdale Elementary School employs 32 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Brookdale Elementary School?
Student demographics at Brookdale Elementary School are roughly 55% White, 25% Hispanic, 6% Black, 8% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Brookdale Elementary School?
Brookdale Elementary School is overseen by Bloomfield Township School District in Essex County.
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