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Brown County High School
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7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Brown County High School
Located at 235 School House Lane, in Nashville, Indiana, Brown County High School is a tight-knit 9-12 campus that caters to 455 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Brown County School Corporation. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 816 students each, so Brown County High School sits 44% leaner than that benchmark.
Brown County High School is one of 5 schools operated by Brown County School Corporation, a district that hosts 1,549 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Brown County High School logs that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Brown County as a whole.
Looking at school resources, The school reports having 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Brown County High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Brown County) reports that median household earnings sit near $78,528, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Brown County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,549 students), of which Brown County High School is one.
Brown County Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Brown County High School's enrollment has edged down 32% since 2018, when it stood at 665 (now 455). Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.
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