Brookwood Elementary

As an intimate primary school in Genoa City, Wisconsin, Brookwood Elementary caters to 200 students from grades pre-K through 3, operated by Genoa City J2 School District. That puts it 38% below the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 323 students.

Genoa City J2 School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 413 students; Brookwood Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Brookwood Elementary shows that 72% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Walworth County's rate of about 37%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Brookwood Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 59.9%; this one comes in at 39.5%, -20.3 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Walworth County shows median household earnings sit near $80,520, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Walworth County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,383 students), of which Brookwood Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Brookwood Middle, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Brookwood Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Brookwood Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 52.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Brookwood Elementary has declined 22%, going from 257 students in 2018 to 200 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 80% to 72% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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