BROOKSIDE SCHOOL

BROOKSIDE SCHOOL, a moderately sized elementary-level community in YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, New York, run under YORKTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, works with 522 students, covering grades K through 3.

BROOKSIDE SCHOOL is one of 5 schools operated by YORKTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that enrolls 3,455 students overall.

On demographics, BROOKSIDE SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 76%. The remainder reads as 14% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BROOKSIDE SCHOOL has 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.9:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 15% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Westchester County's rate of about 38%.

With demographic context factored in, BROOKSIDE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.6%, the actual is 75.8%, a residual of +6.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Westchester County shows the typical household earns roughly $118,976 per year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Westchester County runs 255 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students), of which BROOKSIDE SCHOOL is one.

PUTNAM-WESTCHESTER BOCES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BROOKSIDE SCHOOL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BROOKSIDE SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 73.2%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BROOKSIDE SCHOOL has expanded 18%, going from 444 students in 2018 to 522 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share rose from 69% to 76%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.

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