Brookfield Elementary

Brookfield Elementary operates as an average-sized elementary-level community in Chantilly, Virginia, run under Fairfax County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 684 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 37% larger than the state mean of about 499.

Within Fairfax County Public Schools, which oversees 199 schools and 179,323 students, Brookfield Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Brookfield Elementary records that 55% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 21% Asian, 14% White, 6% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Fairfax County as a whole is about 18% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Brookfield Elementary shows 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Fairfax County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Brookfield Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 65.8%; this one comes in at 48.8%, -17.0 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Fairfax County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $153,637 per year, 65% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Brookfield Elementary is one of 222 public schools in Fairfax County (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students).

Nearest neighbor: Chantilly High, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Brookfield Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Brookfield Elementary at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 84.1%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Brookfield Elementary has declined 19%, going from 842 students in 2018 to 684 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 43% to 55% across the same window.

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