The top reported proficiency rate is 72% in English language arts. The lowest is 44% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Brooker Community School Inc
Brooker Community School sits in one of the smallest towns in Bradford County, a rural community in North Central Florida where state roads converge among pastureland, single-family homes, and scattered roadside businesses. The Santa Fe River passes through town, and the area's identity remains rooted in small-scale farming and residential life. There is no walkable downtown, no public library within the town limits, and most working residents commute out of the county for employment. Starke, the Bradford County seat, is the nearest place with a concentration of employers and civic infrastructure.
The school itself is a charter school serving kindergarten through fifth grade, and its enrollment is quite small, even by the standard of a rural elementary school. The student body is predominantly white, with small shares of Black and multiracial students and no reported Hispanic or Asian enrollment. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places the school in economically challenged territory. Data on students with IEPs and English learners was not available in this data set, so a parent with a child in either of those populations may want to inquire directly with the school.
Because the school serves only early elementary grades, there is no graduation rate to report, and the grade band also explains why science results are limited to fifth grade and why some scores are suppressed: when a grade's tested population is small enough, Florida withholds individual results to protect student privacy.
For the grades where results were reported, the picture is uneven. Third-grade ELA proficiency was strong, placing the school at a level well above what most families would expect for this grade and context. Third-grade math was solid, sitting comfortably above half of students scoring proficient. Fourth grade is where the results drop noticeably. Fourth-grade ELA came in at just over half of students reaching proficiency, and fourth-grade math was considerably weaker, with well under half of students scoring at grade level. Fifth-grade results in both subjects, as well as fifth-grade science, were suppressed due to the small number of students tested, so a full picture of the upper elementary grades is not available. Publicly reported district data indicates that Bradford County overall showed year-over-year academic gains in the 2024-25 school year, with early literacy a particular area of improvement, though some middle-grade subjects remained below state averages. Whether those district-wide trends apply fully to this small charter school is something the data cannot confirm.
The parent district, Bradford County School District, has publicly reported adopting a district-wide data-driven instruction model using Renaissance Star assessments in reading, math, and early literacy across all grades, paired with a digital reading platform. Families receive progress monitoring reports, which gives parents a tool for tracking growth at home. Whether this system operates identically within the charter school is worth asking the school directly, given charter schools' structural autonomy from district-level program decisions.
Housing in Brooker runs meaningfully below Florida state benchmarks and is also below the national median, making the area among the more accessible entry points into homeownership in the region, with values that have appreciated modestly year over year. The rental market data was not available for this specific area. The housing stock is thin and turns slowly; only a handful of homes tend to be on the market at any time.
For families considering Brooker Community School, the size is the defining reality. A class of roughly a half-dozen students in any given grade means every child is visible to teachers and the community, but it also means limited peer diversity and a testing population too small for meaningful grade-level comparisons in several cases. The third-grade reading result stands out as a genuine strength in this data set. The fourth-grade math result warrants a closer conversation with the school about what support is in place and how students typically progress into Bradford County's middle schools after leaving this campus.
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