Brookside School

As an average-sized middle-grades school in Allendale, New Jersey, Brookside School hosts 502 students from grades 4 through 8, run under Allendale Public School District.

Across the 2 schools in Allendale Public School District (850 students total), Brookside School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Brookside School lists that 67% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 18% Asian, 7% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Bergen County as a whole is about 55% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. The state averages around 10.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 2% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Bergen County (around 28%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Brookside School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.1%, the actual is 78.7%, a residual of +13.6 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Bergen County indicate median household earnings sit near $124,884, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bergen County runs 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), of which Brookside School is one.

The closest other public school is Hillside Elementary School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Brookside School. On composite proficiency, Brookside School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 66.5%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 4%: 524 students in 2018 compared to 502 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 73% to 67%.

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