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How has Brookdale Elementary changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
483
Elementary
DISTRICT 387 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FRANKLIN PIERCE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530294000470
Brookdale Elementary
611 132nd St S., Tacoma, WA 98444 · (253) 298-3105 · Pierce County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL483 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.0:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
334 students
DISTRICT 70% · 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 | 66 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 84 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 93 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 100 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (66) is 34% smaller than its 5th grade class (100).
Student demographics
77%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 77% · 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
41.9%
WA avg 58.4% . -9.4pp since 2014
Math
38.1%
WA avg 51.2% . -13.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 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 9 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 14 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.9% | 38.1% |
| 2023-24 | 39.9% | 35.0% |
| 2022-23 | 45.6% | 38.5% |
| 2021-22 | 42.4% | 33.8% |
| 2018-19 | 51.1% | 43.5% |
| 2017-18 | 53.7% | 49.4% |
| 2016-17 | 48.8% | 46.6% |
| 2015-16 | 52.7% | 49.4% |
| 2014-15 | 51.3% | 52.0% |
% 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
40.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.8%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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 Brookdale Elementary
Brookdale Elementary's state test result (40.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brookdale Elementary this school | 483 | 69.2% | 40.2% |
| Lake Louise Elementary School Lakewood | 450 | 69.6% | 40.4% |
| Midland Elementary Tacoma | 399 | 69.4% | 38.9% |
| Camas Prairie Elementary Spanaway | 529 | 67.9% | 55.1% |
| Lyon Elementary School Tacoma | 381 | 67.7% | 39.6% |
| Shining Mountain Elementary Spanaway | 613 | 65.7% | 39.9% |
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 Brookdale Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.2% | #620 of 936 | #100 of 142 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.1% | #705 of 1,103 ▲ 38 | #97 of 142 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.9% | #696 of 1,102 ▲ 32 | #97 of 142 ▲ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.0pp | #434 of 928 | #62 of 141 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 483 | #339 of 1,268 | #52 of 155 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #361 of 1,085 | #37 of 145 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 77.3% | #86 of 1,088 | #35 of 145 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.2% | #276 of 1,169 | #30 of 148 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.6% | #203 of 257 | #37 of 43 |
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
483
+16 (+3%) vs 2020
+27% since 1990-91, when it was 380
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 483 | 32 | 15.1:1 | 69% (334) |
| 2023-24 | 487 | 31 | 15.7:1 | 72% (353) |
| 2022-23 | 486 | 31 | 15.7:1 | 69% (333) |
| 2020-21 | 467 | 29 | 16.1:1 | 65% (303) |
| 2017-18 | 466 | 27.5 | 16.9:1 | 65% (305) |
| 2015-16 | 496 | 26 | 19.1:1 | 79% (391) |
| 2010-11 | 436 | 25 | 17.4:1 | 59% (259) |
| 2000-01 | 486 | 26 | 18.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 380 | 20 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Brookdale Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (466 to 483); teachers up 16% (27.5 to 32).
About Brookdale Elementary
At 611 132nd St S. in Tacoma, Washington, Brookdale Elementary operates as a mid-sized elementary school. It enrolls 483 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are kindergarten through 5. That puts enrollment 27% larger than the 380-student average for elementary schools in Washington.
Brookdale Elementary reports to Franklin Pierce School District, which has 14 schools and 7,187 students.
About 32% of students at Brookdale Elementary are Hispanic, the largest single group. Other reported shares: 27% White, 17% multiracial, 12% Black, and 7% Pacific Islander. Pierce County's residents are about 13% Hispanic, 19 points below the school's share. A diversity index of 77% means there is a 77% chance two randomly chosen students at Brookdale Elementary are from different groups.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 15.1:1. The school has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school's 15.1:1 compares with an average of 17.3:1 for elementary schools in Washington. Federal data show 69% of students (334) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 50% average for public schools in Pierce County is 19 points lower.
Brookdale Elementary is 6.4 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (40.2% versus 33.8%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Washington.
American Community Survey estimates for Pierce County show that the median household earns about $99,564 a year, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Across Pierce County, 287 public schools serve about 138,462 students.
Hewins Early Learning Center sits about 0.7 miles from Brookdale Elementary. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, Brookdale Elementary ranks 4th in a group of 8 nearby schools.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment increased by 16 students, from 467 to 483. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 16.1:1; by 2024-25 it was 15.1:1.
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Pierce County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
930,319
Census ACS
Median income
$99,564
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
287
138,462 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Franklin Pierce School District
- Washington High SchoolHigh · 989 students
- Franklin Pierce High SchoolHigh · 977 students
- Morris Ford Middle SchoolMiddle · 831 students
- Perry G Keithley Middle SchoolMiddle · 804 students
- Collins ElementaryElementary · 466 students
- Harvard ElementaryElementary · 445 students
Other schools in Tacoma
- Stadium High SchoolHigh · 1,700 students
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,556 students
- Mount Tahoma High SchoolHigh · 1,410 students
- Dr. Dolores Silas High SchoolHigh · 1,160 students
- Washington High SchoolHigh · 989 students
- Franklin Pierce High SchoolHigh · 977 students
Other Brookdale Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Brookdale Elementary. Brookdale Elementary is the largest of the 4.
- Brookdale Elementary SchoolNaperville, IL · 462 students
- Brookdale Elementary SchoolBloomfield, NJ · 342 students
- Brookdale ElementaryOrangeburg, SC · 215 students
Nearby schools
- Hewins Early Learning Center0.7 mi · 266
- Perry G Keithley Middle School0.7 mi · 804
- Washington High School0.8 mi · 989
- Elmhurst Elementary School0.8 mi · 335
- James Sales Elementary1.2 mi · 387
- Spanaway Middle School1.7 mi · 766
Frequently asked questions
About Brookdale ElementaryHow many students attend Brookdale Elementary?
Brookdale Elementary enrolls approximately 483 students in grades KG-05.
Is Brookdale Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Brookdale Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Brookdale Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Brookdale Elementary is approximately 15.1:1 (32 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Brookdale Elementary?
At Brookdale Elementary, the student body is approximately 27% White, 32% Hispanic, 12% Black, 4% Asian, 17% Two or more.
Is Brookdale Elementary public or private?
Brookdale Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Franklin Pierce School District.
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