Brookside Place School
Cranford, NJ · Elementary School
Brookside Place School is a elementary school in Cranford, NJ with 355 students enrolled and a 71% proficiency rate. Part of Cranford Public School District. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
About This School
Brookside Place School is a elementary school located in Cranford, New Jersey. The school serves 355 students. The student-to-teacher ratio is 13.1:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 71% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
1% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Brookside Place School is part of the Cranford Public School District in New Jersey.
How This School Compares
Brookside Place School has 355 students enrolled, making it smaller than the average school in Cranford Public School District (533 students). Its 71% proficiency rate is 1 percentage points below the district average of 73%. Compared to the New Jersey state average of 56%, the school performs 15 points higher. With a 13.1:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Brookside Place School has 355 students enrolled. The student-to-teacher ratio is 13.1:1.
According to EDFacts data, 71% of students at Brookside Place School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Brookside Place School is part of the Cranford Public School District in Cranford, New Jersey. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
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Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.