Brooklake School

As a close-knit elementary campus in FLORHAM PARK, New Jersey, Brooklake School teaches 306 students from grades 3 through 5, part of Florham Park School District. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Brooklake School sits 24% leaner than that benchmark.

Florham Park School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 938 students. Brooklake School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Brooklake School reports that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 11% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 5% Black, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Brooklake School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 1% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Morris County runs at roughly 19%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Brooklake School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.9%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Morris County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $137,326 per year, about 58% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Morris County's 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,239 students), Brooklake School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Briarwood School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Brooklake School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 68.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Brooklake School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 312 (now 306).

On the community side, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.