Summary:
Brookside Charter School in Missouri operates a single elementary school, Brookside Charter Elementary, which serves students from pre-kindergarten through 5th grade. The school faces significant challenges, consistently ranking in the bottom third of Missouri elementary schools over the past few years and earning a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger.
Brookside Charter Elementary struggles with low academic performance, with test scores in Mathematics, Science, and English Language Arts consistently below the state averages across all grade levels. For example, in the 2024-2025 school year, the percentage of students proficient or better in Mathematics ranged from 16% to 23.8%, compared to the state average of 38.2% to 43.8%. The school also has an extremely high rate of free/reduced lunch recipients at 99.02%, indicating a high-poverty student population.
Despite the school's relatively high spending per student of $14,443 for the 2021-2022 school year, which is higher than the state average, and a low student-teacher ratio of 9.3 to 1, the academic performance of the students remains significantly below the state average. This suggests that factors beyond class size, such as curriculum, instruction, and support services, may be more influential in improving student outcomes at Brookside Charter Elementary.
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