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Brewton Elementary School
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Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 46% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Alabama's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Brewton Elementary School
As a medium-sized elementary school in Brewton, Alabama, Brewton Elementary School hosts 476 students from grades pre-K through 4, operated by Brewton City.
Brewton City comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,168 students; Brewton Elementary School is among them.
On the student-mix side, Brewton Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 59% of enrollment. Other groups include 31% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Escambia County as a whole.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Escambia County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Brewton Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 46.1%; this one delivers 63.2%, a residual of +17.1 points.
Across the wider county, census data for Escambia County shows median household income runs about $48,225, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Escambia County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,240 students), Brewton Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: TR Miller High School, around 1.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Brewton Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Brewton Elementary School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 37.5%.
Brewton Elementary School operates from a small-town location.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 13%: 423 students in 2018 compared to 476 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 37% to 31%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.
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Related schools
- TR Miller High SchoolHigh · 373 students
- Brewton Middle SchoolMiddle · 319 students
- TR Miller High SchoolHigh · 373 students
- Brewton Middle SchoolMiddle · 319 students
- PollardMcCall Junior High SchoolElementary · 200 students
- EscambiaBrewton Career Technical CenterHigh
- TR Miller High School1.3 mi · 373
- W S Neal High School2.2 mi · 370
- W S Neal Middle School2.4 mi · 386
- W S Neal Elementary School2.5 mi · 500
- Brewton Middle School2.5 mi · 319
- PollardMcCall Junior High School7.3 mi · 200