Tutoring for Brookside Elementary Students

About Brookside

Brookside Elementary describes itself as the first school established in Oak Park Unified (Brookside). The district's history page says it was completed in 1968, while Oak Park was still part of the Simi Valley Unified School District (OPUSD history). Today it teaches about 558 students from TK through 5th grade on Satinwood Avenue (Ed-Data), and its About page lists it as a California Distinguished School and a National Blue Ribbon School, without years.

Students are the Brookside Tigers, and the school's purpose statement is "Growing the Hearts and Minds of ALL Brookside Tigers." The campus has an Organic Garden and Earth Sciences Exploratory outdoor classroom, the Kingsmen Shakespeare Company visits every year, and students can join after-school drama productions (Brookside).

Start and end times differ by grade: TK runs 8:00 am to noon, kindergarten 8:15 am to 1:15 pm, grades 1–3 8:20 am to 2:30 pm and grades 4–5 8:20 am to 2:56 pm, with an early release every Wednesday. Club Oak Park provides before- and after-school care (handbook). Brookside students continue to Medea Creek Middle School (MCMS enrollment).

Brookside Elementary at a glance

Grades	TK–5
District	Oak Park Unified
Address	165 Satinwood Avenue, Oak Park, CA 91377
Programs	Organic Garden and Earth Sciences Exploratory outdoor classroom; yearly Kingsmen Shakespeare Company visits; after-school drama; GATE cluster grouping; Club Oak Park care
Bell times, 2026–27	TK 8:00 am–12:00 pm; kindergarten 8:15 am–1:15 pm; grades 1–3 8:20 am–2:30 pm; grades 4–5 8:20 am–2:56 pm
Early release	Every Wednesday: TK 12:00 pm, kindergarten 12:15 pm, grades 1–5 12:40 pm
Feeds into	Medea Creek Middle School
Opened	1968, as the first school in what became Oak Park Unified
Enrollment	558 students in 2025–26 (Ed-Data)
CAASPP 2025–26	80% scored Proficient or Advanced in English and 76% in math (OPUSD: 79% and 72%; California: 49% and 38%)
School website	bes.opusd.org

Sources, opened October 13, 2026: Brookside Elementary School; Brookside Elementary: about us; Brookside School Handbook 2026–27; Ed-Data: Brookside Elementary; OPUSD: Oak Park history; Medea Creek Middle School: enrollment; OPUSD math placement policy (Exhibit 1, BP 6152.1); MCMS and OPHS Math Information Night, September 29, 2026; OPUSD important event dates, 2026–27; CAASPP results, Brookside Elementary, 2025–26 (opened October 15, 2026); CAASPP results, Brookside Elementary, 2024–25; CAST science results, Brookside Elementary, 2025–26 (opened October 15, 2026).

Thousand Acorns Tutoring is not affiliated with Brookside Elementary School or Oak Park Unified School District.

Brookside test scores

The table shows the share of students who scored Proficient or Advanced on the CAASPP tests, in all tested grades; 285 Brookside students took the English test in 2025–26 (CAASPP results). District and state rows include grades 3–8 and 11.

Results	English	Math	Science
Brookside Elementary, 2025–26	79.65%	75.79%	71.68%
Brookside Elementary, 2024–25	77.51%	78.35%	68.54%
Oak Park Unified, 2025–26	79.02%	72.15%	74.87%
California, 2025–26	49.26%	38.35%	35.99%

Science is the California Science Test, taken in 5th and 8th grade. The score report guide explains the levels, and the test scores page compares every school here.

Subjects that fit Brookside students

Shakespeare visits and after-school drama put scripts in Brookside students' hands, and reading a part aloud is fluency practice. Reading and phonics and writing sessions build the same skills. On the math side, Oak Park's Algebra I decision comes in 6th grade at Medea Creek, but it rests on fractions, decimals and multi-step problems from 4th and 5th grade, which elementary math sessions cover.

Elementary math (K–5)Reading and phonics (K–5)Writing (K–8)

Prices for Brookside families

Tutoring is $80 an hour in your home or online, or $50 an hour per child in a small group of 2 to 4, and the first consultation is free. All prices and terms.