BROOKLYN — For years, school officials in Brooklyn have struggled with how to manage the traffic flow around the district’s Gorman Road campus: a priority both in terms of safety and practicality as buses compete with private cars to ferry students to and from the classroom each day.

“If there are 80 cars coming in and out every day, that’s the concern, getting them in and out safely,” said Superintendent of Schools Patricia Buell. “We’re working on it, but we’re not quite there in terms of making it smooth yet.”

The problem stems largely from the driveway’s presently impractical design. The two-lane roadway slingshots around the far side of the property behind the elementary school, leading from its entrance at the middle school to Louise Berry Drive — a public street — and back to Gorman Road.

At a critical point, the driveway splits off to allow access to a rotary of sorts at the center of the campus where pre-school students are picked up and dropped off. It further complicates an already stifling traffic jam as cars edge out of the rotary and back on to the main path. Personal vehicles snake along the roadway, taking over one lane, and making access for other traffic nearly impossible.

Over time, it’s been a constant challenge for school staff, who have implemented small but ingenious methods of getting kids into cars and onto buses safely. A recently implemented strategy has given the process the precision of the Ford assembly line on good days.

“(When we’re talking about) 50 or 60 students every day at the elementary schools — they’re doing that in 15 minutes,” said Buell, of staff who track, organize and queue students and coordinate drivers using real-time data entered into a shared Google Doc. “It’s very efficient.”

A major contribution to the bottleneck is the consistently heavy flow of incoming and outgoing traffic at the start and end of the day, in a district where over a 10th of the population travels to and from school by personal vehicle.

Many parents want spare their children the long and dreary bus rides through a town that becomes increasingly rural over its nearly 30 square miles.

Buell said over 100 students are delivered and picked up by personal transportation daily, about 12 percent of the less than 1,000 kids enrolled in the district.

Property exists behind the schools at the site to expand or change the traffic flow, but Buell expressed concern about the cost of engineering and other factors. Any solution will likely be dramatic, she said.

“We going to find (a previously commissioned) study and see if we can revisit that,” said Buell. “Parents have a right to pick up their kids and lots of parents choose to, and lots of parents choose to do that, so we are really trying to work with everyone.”

The town’s Board of Selectmen did not favor a proposal to purchase a parcel of land on Louise Berry Drive, which would effectively give the school full access to the street while landlocking the lone property owner in the vicinity.

“If you buy the property, it doesn’t solve the problem,” said First Selectman Rick Ives. “We, in a sense, close down that road for an hour and a half each day, which you can’t do, it’s a town road.”