Brooks Global Elementary

Set in Greensboro, North Carolina, Brooks Global Elementary is a small elementary campus, part of Guilford County Schools. It serves 314 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Brooks Global Elementary sits 33% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 123 schools in Guilford County Schools (68,535 students total), Brooks Global Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Brooks Global Elementary logs that the largest single group is Black at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 29% White, 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Guilford County as a whole is about 34% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Guilford County runs at roughly 89%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Brooks Global Elementary ranks in the top 10% of North Carolina public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 48.8%; Brooks Global Elementary posts 70.9%, +22.1 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Guilford County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,642 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Guilford County's 143 public schools (combined enrollment of about 79,539 students), Brooks Global Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: John Van Lindley Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Brooks Global Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 55.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Brooks Global Elementary has shrank 20%, going from 394 students in 2018 to 314 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment rose from 49% to 54% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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