Enrollment
382
Elementary
DISTRICT 326 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MOON AREA SD·NCES 421583000148
J H Brooks Elementary School
1720 Hassam Rd, Moon Township, PA 15108 · (412) 264-9440 · Allegheny County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL382 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 96% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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 Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
105 students
DISTRICT 33% · STATE 75%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 71 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 89 | 23% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 79 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (71) is 7% smaller than its 4th grade class (76).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 59% · 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
J H Brooks Elementary School→Moon Area Lower Middle School→Moon Area Upper Middle School→Moon Area SHS
Based on grade levels within Moon Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
72.1%
PA avg 51.1% . -10.7pp since 2023
Math
82.2%
PA avg 43.0% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 11 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.1% | 82.2% |
| 2023-24 | 82.8% | 82.2% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. 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
81.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.8%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% typical for Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania'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 J H Brooks Elementary School
J H Brooks Elementary School's state test result (81.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| J H Brooks Elementary School this school | 382 | 27.5% | 81.9% |
| Fern Hill Elementary School West Chester | 408 | 22.3% | 68.4% |
| South Elementary School Trappe | 459 | 26.6% | 75.2% |
| Thomas Fitzwater Elementary School Willow Grove | 431 | 24.6% | 74.7% |
| North Wales Elementary School North Wales | 484 | 26.4% | 69.0% |
| East Coventry Elementary School Pottstown | 479 | 29.4% | 73.4% |
Matched among Pennsylvania 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 J H Brooks Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 81.9% | #77 of 1,396 | #26 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 82.2% | #82 of 1,511 ▼ 25 | #29 of 141 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.1% | #177 of 1,511 ▼ 92 | #44 of 141 ▼ 18 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 382 | #948 of 1,638 | #72 of 156 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #1,396 of 1,528 | #126 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.8% | #506 of 1,531 | #51 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.5% | #1,359 of 1,600 | #108 of 152 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.2% | #214 of 450 | #36 of 63 |
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
382
+14 (+4%) vs 2020
-35% since 2000-01, when it was 590
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 382 | 23.9 | 16.0:1 | 27% (105) |
| 2023-24 | 383 | 24.6 | 15.6:1 | 27% (105) |
| 2022-23 | 377 | 23.7 | 15.9:1 | 27% (103) |
| 2020-21 | 368 | 24 | 15.3:1 | 19% (71) |
| 2017-18 | 353 | 25.5 | 13.8:1 | 27% (95) |
| 2015-16 | 390 | 28 | 13.9:1 | 30% (118) |
| 2010-11 | 406 | 24 | 16.9:1 | 22% (88) |
| 2000-01 | 590 | 32 | 18.4:1 | 0% (0) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for J H Brooks Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 8% (353 to 382); teachers down 6% (25.5 to 23.9).
About J H Brooks Elementary School
J H Brooks Elementary School is a public elementary school run by Moon Area SD in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. The grade span is kindergarten through 4, and enrollment is 382 students.
J H Brooks Elementary School falls under Moon Area SD, which has 8 schools enrolling 4,100 students.
White students are the majority at J H Brooks Elementary School, with 68% of enrollment. Other groups make up 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 8% Asian, and 7% Black. Allegheny County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school's share is lower. Pick two students at random and there is a 52% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.0:1 at J H Brooks Elementary School, with 23.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 2.9 above the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 27%. Compared with the 54% average for public schools in Allegheny County, the school's rate is lower.
The allk12 Grade for J H Brooks Elementary School is A+. Compared with Pennsylvania public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 96% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 65.8% at J H Brooks Elementary School; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 81.9%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Allegheny County show that the median household income is $78,548, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Besides J H Brooks Elementary School, Allegheny County has 276 other public schools.
The nearest other public school, Cornell High School, is about 0.9 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, J H Brooks Elementary School ranks 2nd of 9 on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around J H Brooks Elementary School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show a 4% enrollment rise, from 368 in 2020-21 to 382 in 2024-25.
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Allegheny County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,238,177
Census ACS
Median income
$78,548
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
277
141,392 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Moon Area SD
- Moon Area SHSHigh · 1,211 students
- Moon Area Lower Middle SchoolMiddle · 639 students
- Moon Area Upper Middle SchoolMiddle · 621 students
- Bon Meade Elementary SchoolElementary · 572 students
- Richard J. Hyde Elementary SchoolElementary · 237 students
- McCormick Elementary SchoolElementary · 229 students
Other schools in Moon Township
- Moon Area SHSHigh · 1,211 students
- Moon Area Lower Middle SchoolMiddle · 639 students
- Moon Area Upper Middle SchoolMiddle · 621 students
- Bon Meade Elementary SchoolElementary · 572 students
- Richard J. Hyde Elementary SchoolElementary · 237 students
- McCormick Elementary SchoolElementary · 229 students
Nearby schools
- Cornell High School0.9 mi · 252
- Cornell Elementary School0.9 mi · 289
- McCormick Elementary School1.5 mi · 229
- Richard J. Hyde Elementary School1.9 mi · 237
- Osborne Elementary School2.2 mi · 397
- Moon Area Lower Middle School2.3 mi · 639
Frequently asked questions
About J H Brooks Elementary SchoolHow large is J H Brooks Elementary School?
J H Brooks Elementary School enrolls approximately 382 students in grades KG-04.
Is J H Brooks Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
J H Brooks Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-04.
How many teachers does J H Brooks Elementary School have?
J H Brooks Elementary School employs 24 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.0:1.
What is the student diversity at J H Brooks Elementary School?
Student demographics at J H Brooks Elementary School are roughly 68% White, 9% Hispanic, 7% Black, 8% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees J H Brooks Elementary School?
J H Brooks Elementary School is overseen by Moon Area SD in Allegheny County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.