Enrollment
401
Elementary
DISTRICT 354 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362838003821
BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3849 SADDLEMIRE RD, BINGHAMTON, NY 13903 · (607) 669-4105 · Broome County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL401 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 38% of New York public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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 York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
190 students
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 58%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 36 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 68 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 46 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (68) is 48% larger than its 5th grade class (46).
Student demographics
25%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 22% · STATE 72% · 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 SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
52.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
49.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.0% | 49.0% |
| 2023-24 | 42.0% | 49.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. 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
46.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% typical for New York 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 York'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 BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (46.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 401 | 47.4% | 46.3% |
| PERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PERRY | 411 | 47.0% | 43.2% |
| DANSVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL DANSVILLE | 393 | 49.9% | N/A |
| BROWNVILLE SCHOOL BROWNVILLE | 374 | 48.9% | 44.8% |
| SINCLAIRVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SINCLAIRVILLE | 413 | 48.2% | 44.8% |
| EAST HILL SCHOOL CANAJOHARIE | 403 | 50.1% | 58.0% |
Matched among New York 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 BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Broome County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.3% | #1,325 of 2,335 | #12 of 26 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #1,504 of 2,342 ▼ 139 | #12 of 26 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #1,273 of 2,343 ▼ 68 | #10 of 26 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 401 | #1,354 of 2,585 | #12 of 28 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.4:1 | #2,196 of 2,338 | #25 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.1% | #2,001 of 2,388 | #21 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.4% | #1,483 of 2,534 | #17 of 28 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.8% | #474 of 606 | #7 of 8 |
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
401
+44 (+12%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 524
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
was 11.2:1
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 | 401 | 24.5 | 16.4:1 | 47% (190) |
| 2023-24 | 391 | 26.3 | 14.9:1 | 42% (164) |
| 2022-23 | 386 | 27 | 14.3:1 | 45% (174) |
| 2020-21 | 357 | 32 | 11.2:1 | 53% (189) |
| 2017-18 | 390 | 35 | 11.1:1 | 51% (198) |
| 2015-16 | 368 | 32 | 11.5:1 | 48% (175) |
| 2010-11 | 381 | 33 | 11.6:1 | 33% (126) |
| 2000-01 | 428 | 32 | 13.4:1 | 21% (89) |
| 1990-91 | 524 | 29 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school serving families in BINGHAMTON, New York. A federal count lists 401 students at the school, in pre-K through 5.
SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT enrolls 1,442 students, and its 4 schools include BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
The large majority of students at BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 86%, are White. The next largest groups are 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, and 3% Asian. BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 25%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's 24.5 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 16.4:1. That ratio is over the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 47%.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives a C+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 11.3 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (46.3% versus 57.6%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New York.
In Broome County (population about 197,378), median household income is about $62,616, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 31%, and about 12% of people live in poverty. A total of 52 public schools operate in Broome County, serving about 24,594 students.
The school nearest to BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is MACARTHUR SCHOOL, at a distance of about 4.3 miles. Within five miles of BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, there are 7 other public schools. BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 4th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
NCES assigns BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL the locale Rural: Fringe, meaning in rural territory close to an urban area.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment up 12%, from 357 to 401. The ratio of students to teachers went from 11.2:1 to 16.4:1 over the same years.
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Broome County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
197,378
Census ACS
Median income
$62,616
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
52
24,594 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 420 students
- RICHARD T STANK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 315 students
- F P DONNELLY SCHOOLElementary · 306 students
Other schools in BINGHAMTON
- BINGHAMTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,262 students
- BROOME-DELAWARE-TIOGA BOCESCombined · 1,055 students
- CHENANGO FORKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 605 students
- WEST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 542 students
- CHENANGO VALLEY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 507 students
- EAST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 465 students
Other Brookside Elementary schools
17 other US public schools in 12 states are named Brookside Elementary. BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 9th largest of the 18.
- BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBALDWIN, NY · 236 students
- Brookside ElementaryRAMSEY, MN · 779 students
- Brookside ElementaryBeaumont, CA · 691 students
- Brookside ElementaryOak Park, CA · 556 students
- Brookside Elementary SchoolNicholasville, KY · 515 students
Nearby schools
- MACARTHUR SCHOOL4.3 mi · 399
- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.6 mi · 403
- F P DONNELLY SCHOOL4.8 mi · 306
- SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL4.9 mi · 420
- RICHARD T STANK MIDDLE SCHOOL4.9 mi · 315
- VESTAL HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.9 mi · 388
Frequently asked questions
About BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 401 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 16.4:1 (24 FTE teachers).
How diverse is BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 86% White, 4% Hispanic, 2% Black, 3% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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