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What's something Brentwood Elementary does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
494
Elementary
DISTRICT 449 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CUMBERLAND COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370001100397
Brentwood Elementary
1115 Bingham Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28304 · (910) 864-5310 · Cumberland County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL494 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 26% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- CTest 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 North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
478 students
DISTRICT 89% · STATE 82%
Community
1
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 | 24 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 90 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 66 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 81 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (81).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 71% · 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
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
41.2%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
47.4%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. 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
45.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.3%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for North Carolina 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 North Carolina'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 Brentwood Elementary
Brentwood Elementary's state test result (45.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brentwood Elementary this school | 494 | 96.8% | 45.1% |
| Morganton Road Elementary Fayetteville | 491 | 99.4% | 43.4% |
| Benjamin J Martin Elementary Fayetteville | 522 | 97.7% | 38.2% |
| Elizabethtown Primary Elizabethtown | 483 | 97.3% | 36.2% |
| William T Brown Elementary Spring Lake | 562 | 98.2% | 40.5% |
| Warrenwood Elementary Fayetteville | 424 | 96.2% | 35.3% |
Matched among North Carolina 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 Brentwood Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Cumberland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.1% | #953 of 1,297 | #28 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.4% | #970 of 1,296 | #26 of 45 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.2% | #903 of 1,300 | #35 of 45 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 494 | #628 of 1,485 | #21 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #423 of 1,377 | #11 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.4% | #762 of 1,379 | #35 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.8% | #1,006 of 1,414 | #40 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.0% | #669 of 937 | #22 of 36 |
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
494
+37 (+8%) vs 2020
-31% since 1990-91, when it was 716
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 12.7:1
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 | 494 | 35.7 | 13.8:1 | 97% (478) |
| 2023-24 | 502 | 39.4 | 12.8:1 | 99% (499) |
| 2022-23 | 498 | 39.9 | 12.5:1 | 99% (495) |
| 2020-21 | 457 | 36 | 12.7:1 | 99% (454) |
| 2017-18 | 537 | 41.4 | 13.0:1 | 97% (522) |
| 2015-16 | 552 | 40 | 13.8:1 | 98% (543) |
| 2010-11 | 539 | 43 | 12.5:1 | 82% (441) |
| 2000-01 | 614 | 25 | 24.6:1 | 66% (408) |
| 1990-91 | 716 | 35 | 20.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Brentwood Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (537 to 494); teachers down 14% (41.4 to 35.7).
About Brentwood Elementary
Located in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Brentwood Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school. It enrolls 494 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 5.
Brentwood Elementary sits within Cumberland County Schools, which has 86 schools and 49,002 students.
The student body at Brentwood Elementary is 60% Black. The school is also 18% Hispanic, 11% White, and 9% multiracial. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 38%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 58%.
There are 35.7 full-time-equivalent teachers at Brentwood Elementary, giving a ratio of 13.8:1. The school's 13.8:1 compares with an average of 14.9:1 for elementary schools in North Carolina. By family income, 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 86% average for public schools in Cumberland County.
On the allk12 Grade, Brentwood Elementary lands at C, ahead of 26% of North Carolina public elementary schools.
Schools in North Carolina with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 49.3%. Brentwood Elementary scores 45.1%.
For Cumberland County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $61,291 a year, roughly 28% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. Public schools in Cumberland County number 89, with about 50,815 students.
A public school about 0.8 miles away, Lewis Chapel Middle, is the closest to Brentwood Elementary. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Brentwood Elementary ranks 5th on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Mid-size, or inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment figures show a gain of 37 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. Its ratio of students to teachers was 12.7:1 in 2020-21, and 13.8:1 in 2024-25.
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Cumberland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
338,545
Census ACS
Median income
$61,291
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
89
50,815 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cumberland County Schools
- Jack Britt HighHigh · 1,940 students
- Pine Forest HighHigh · 1,551 students
- Cape Fear HighHigh · 1,515 students
- South View HighHigh · 1,461 students
- Gray's Creek HighHigh · 1,458 students
- Seventy-First HighHigh · 1,332 students
Other schools in Fayetteville
- Jack Britt HighHigh · 1,940 students
- Pine Forest HighHigh · 1,551 students
- Cape Fear HighHigh · 1,515 students
- Seventy-First HighHigh · 1,332 students
- Westover HighHigh · 1,234 students
- Terry Sanford HighHigh · 1,201 students
Other Brentwood Elementary schools
12 other US public schools in 8 states are named Brentwood Elementary. Brentwood Elementary is the 5th largest of the 13.
- Brentwood ElementaryRaleigh, NC · 385 students
- Brentwood ElementaryBrentwood, CA · 811 students
- Brentwood ElementaryVictorville, CA · 790 students
- Brentwood Elementary SchoolAUSTIN, TX · 671 students
- BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSARASOTA, FL · 590 students
Nearby schools
- Lewis Chapel Middle0.8 mi · 574
- Anne Chesnutt Middle1.0 mi · 470
- Seventy-First High1.2 mi · 1,332
- J W Coon Elementary1.4 mi · 186
- Seventy-First Classical Middle1.4 mi · 433
- Loyd E Auman Elementary1.6 mi · 495
Frequently asked questions
About Brentwood ElementaryHow many students attend Brentwood Elementary?
Brentwood Elementary enrolls approximately 494 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Brentwood Elementary serve?
Brentwood Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Brentwood Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Brentwood Elementary is approximately 13.8:1 (36 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Brentwood Elementary?
At Brentwood Elementary, the student body is approximately 11% White, 18% Hispanic, 60% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Brentwood Elementary?
Brentwood Elementary is overseen by Cumberland County Schools in Cumberland County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.