Brookside Intermediate School

As a moderately sized elementary-level community in Sheffield Village, Ohio, Brookside Intermediate School works with 416 students from grades 3 through 6, operated by Sheffield-Sheffield Lake City.

Brookside Intermediate School is one of 5 schools operated by Sheffield-Sheffield Lake City, a district that enrolls 1,455 students overall.

Demographically, Brookside Intermediate School records that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 17% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Brookside Intermediate School shows 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 61% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Lorain County runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Brookside Intermediate School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.8%; this one delivers 61.8%.

In the area at large, census data for Lorain County shows median household earnings sit near $73,347, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Lorain County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,516 students), Brookside Intermediate School is one campus in the mix.

Brookside High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Brookside Intermediate School.

Brookside Intermediate School operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Brookside Intermediate School's enrollment has contracted 23% since 2018, when it stood at 537 (now 416). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 83% to 72% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.1:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Brookside Intermediate School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.