BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in BALDWIN, New York, BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a tight-knit elementary campus, part of BALDWIN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It works with 236 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 47% leaner than the state mean of about 443.

Across the 7 schools in BALDWIN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (4,309 students total), BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 60% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder looks like 27% Hispanic, 5% White, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Nassau County as a whole is about 11% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 44% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Nassau County's rate of about 31%.

After controlling for student poverty, BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.9%; this one delivers 59.7%.

In the area at large, Nassau County reports that median household income runs about $146,202, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Nassau County runs 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), of which BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

BALDWIN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 60.7%.

BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 10%: 262 students in 2018 compared to 236 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL typically covers school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.