Robert Brown Middle School
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Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 5 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 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 19% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Alabama's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Robert Brown Middle School
Robert Brown Middle School, a compact middle school in Eutaw, Alabama, one of the schools within Greene County, enrolls 309 students, covering grades 4 through 8. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 508 students each, so Robert Brown Middle School sits 39% smaller than that benchmark.
Greene County comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 841 students; Robert Brown Middle School is among them.
Looking at the student body, Robert Brown Middle School shows that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. By comparison, Greene County as a whole is about 81% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, The school lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Robert Brown Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 18.6%; this one delivers 13.8%.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Greene County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $29,200 per year, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 31% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Robert Brown Middle School is one of 5 public schools in Greene County (combined enrollment of about 841 students).
The closest other public school is Eutaw Primary School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Robert Brown Middle School. On composite proficiency, Robert Brown Middle School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 37.4%.
Robert Brown Middle School operates from a rural location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 18%: 376 students in 2018 compared to 309 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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