Brooks Crossing Elementary School

Brooks Crossing Elementary School operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in MONMOUTH JUNCTION, New Jersey, operated by South Brunswick School District. Current enrollment sits at 498 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Brooks Crossing Elementary School sits 23% above that benchmark.

South Brunswick School District runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 7,589 students. Brooks Crossing Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Brooks Crossing Elementary School lists that 66% of the student body identifies as Asian. The remainder looks like 16% White, 8% Hispanic, 7% Black. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

On the resource side, On paper, Brooks Crossing Elementary School has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.2:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 17% 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 Middlesex County's rate of about 42%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Brooks Crossing Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.6%; this one delivers 65.3%.

In the area at large, Middlesex County reports that the typical household earns roughly $111,549 per year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Middlesex County runs 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students), of which Brooks Crossing Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Deans Elementary School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Brooks Crossing Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 58.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Brooks Crossing Elementary School has decreased 17%, going from 601 students in 2018 to 498 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 72% to 66% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

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