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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Brentwood Elementary School administration to hear?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
468
Elementary
DISTRICT 423 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MEAD SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530492000743
Brentwood Elementary School
406 W REGINA AVE, SPOKANE, WA 99218 · (509) 465-6200 · Spokane County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL468 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
208 students
DISTRICT 41% · STATE 51%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 57 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 97 | 21% |
| Grade 5 | 87 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 34% smaller than its 5th grade class (87).
Student demographics
39%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 37% · STATE 68% · 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
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
44.7%
WA avg 58.4% . -23.2pp since 2014
Math
41.5%
WA avg 51.2% . -27.7pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 23 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 28 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.7% | 41.5% |
| 2023-24 | 48.7% | 43.7% |
| 2022-23 | 56.2% | 54.4% |
| 2021-22 | 53.8% | 49.8% |
| 2018-19 | 66.6% | 60.1% |
| 2017-18 | 64.4% | 59.8% |
| 2016-17 | 64.7% | 62.0% |
| 2015-16 | 66.4% | 64.3% |
| 2014-15 | 68.0% | 69.2% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. 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
46.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.4%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for Washington 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 Washington'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 School
Brentwood Elementary School's state test result (46.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brentwood Elementary School this school | 468 | 44.4% | 46.3% |
| Hamblen Elementary Spokane | 508 | 43.7% | 61.6% |
| Rainier Elementary School Rainier | 493 | 45.6% | 53.9% |
| Monte Cristo Elementary Granite Falls | 502 | 43.6% | 34.3% |
| Burley Glenwood Elementary PORT ORCHARD | 452 | 42.0% | 53.5% |
| Farwell Elementary School SPOKANE | 471 | 47.8% | 59.5% |
Matched among Washington 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 School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Spokane County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.3% | #495 of 936 | #50 of 82 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.5% | #618 of 1,103 ▼ 63 | #53 of 83 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.7% | #630 of 1,102 ▼ 98 | #53 of 83 ▼ 9 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -8.7pp | #49 of 928 | #7 of 81 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 468 | #393 of 1,268 | #17 of 92 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.3:1 | #873 of 1,085 | #74 of 83 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.4% | #933 of 1,088 | #58 of 83 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.4% | #729 of 1,169 | #57 of 86 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.6% | #331 of 778 | #35 of 67 |
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
468
+30 (+7%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 664
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 468 | 27.1 | 17.3:1 | 44% (208) |
| 2023-24 | 482 | 30 | 16.1:1 | 40% (193) |
| 2022-23 | 503 | 29.3 | 17.2:1 | 37% (187) |
| 2020-21 | 438 | 29 | 15.1:1 | 26% (112) |
| 2017-18 | 575 | 30.2 | 19.1:1 | 30% (173) |
| 2015-16 | 551 | 26 | 21.2:1 | 36% (201) |
| 2010-11 | 606 | 27 | 22.4:1 | 32% (191) |
| 2000-01 | 549 | 24 | 22.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 664 | 27 | 24.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Brentwood Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (575 to 468); teachers down 10% (30.2 to 27.1).
About Brentwood Elementary School
Brentwood Elementary School, a medium-sized elementary school, is located in SPOKANE, Washington. The school's enrollment of 468 students covers kindergarten through 5. Enrollment is 23% higher than the average for elementary schools in Washington, which is about 380.
Brentwood Elementary School is run by Mead School District, whose 17 schools enroll 10,657 students.
White students are the majority at Brentwood Elementary School, with 77% of enrollment. The school is also 8% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Pacific Islander, and 2% Black. Brentwood Elementary School's diversity index is 39%, against a US figure of 70%.
Staffing totals 27.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 17.3:1. That is close to the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. Brentwood Elementary School reports 44% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The average for public schools in Spokane County is 52%.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Brentwood Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Washington schools: 46.3% actual against 50.4% predicted.
Spokane County has these Census figures: the median household income is $78,582, about 33% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. In all, Spokane County has 187 public schools and roughly 76,588 students.
The nearest public school is Mead Senior High School, at about 0.5 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, Brentwood Elementary School is 8th among 8 schools close by.
Brentwood Elementary School has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
Enrollment is up 7% from 2020-21, when Brentwood Elementary School had 438 students, to 2024-25, when it had 468. By 2024-25, the school had 17.3 students per teacher, compared with 15.1 in 2020-21.
The Brentwood Elementary School community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Spokane County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
549,056
Census ACS
Median income
$78,582
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
187
76,588 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Mead School District
- Mead Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,827 students
- Mt Spokane High SchoolHigh · 1,482 students
- Mountainside Middle SchoolMiddle · 824 students
- Northwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 796 students
- Mead Learning OptionsCombined · 790 students
- Highland Middle SchoolMiddle · 704 students
Other schools in SPOKANE
- Mead Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,827 students
- Lewis & Clark High SchoolHigh · 1,673 students
- North Central High SchoolHigh · 1,647 students
- Ferris High SchoolHigh · 1,644 students
- Rogers High SchoolHigh · 1,498 students
- Shadle Park High SchoolHigh · 1,445 students
Other Brentwood Elementary schools
12 other US public schools in 8 states are named Brentwood Elementary. Brentwood Elementary School is the 6th largest of the 13.
- Brentwood ElementaryBrentwood, CA · 811 students
- Brentwood ElementaryVictorville, CA · 790 students
- Brentwood Elementary SchoolAUSTIN, TX · 671 students
- BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSARASOTA, FL · 590 students
- Brentwood ElementaryFayetteville, NC · 494 students
Nearby schools
- Mead Senior High School0.5 mi · 1,827
- Northwood Middle School1.7 mi · 796
- Farwell Elementary School1.9 mi · 471
- Prairie View Elementary1.9 mi · 386
- Spokane International Academy1.9 mi · 824
- Evergreen Elementary School1.9 mi · 433
Frequently asked questions
About Brentwood Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Brentwood Elementary School?
Brentwood Elementary School enrolls approximately 468 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Brentwood Elementary School serve?
Brentwood Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Brentwood Elementary School?
Approximately 17.3:1 students per teacher at Brentwood Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Brentwood Elementary School?
At Brentwood Elementary School, the student body is approximately 77% White, 8% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Brentwood Elementary School public or private?
Brentwood Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Mead School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.