Brookside Elementary

Brookside Elementary operates as a medium-sized elementary school in Lake Forest Park, Washington, one of the schools within Shoreline School District. Current enrollment sits at 372 students spanning grades K through 5.

Within Shoreline School District, which oversees 18 schools and 9,717 students, Brookside Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Brookside Elementary reports that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 13% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 11% Black, 10% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with King County as a whole.

On the resource side, The school reports having 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Brookside Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 65.7%.

Around the school, census data for King County shows the typical household earns roughly $124,746 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, King County runs 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), of which Brookside Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lake Forest Park Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Brookside Elementary. On composite proficiency, Brookside Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 62.3%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Brookside Elementary has decreased 26%, going from 504 students in 2018 to 372 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 63% to 53% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

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