Brownstown Central Middle School

Brownstown Central Middle School operates as an intimate intermediate school in Brownstown, Indiana, operated by Brownstown Cnt Com Sch Corp. Current enrollment sits at 307 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 594 students each, so Brownstown Central Middle School sits 48% leaner than that benchmark.

Brownstown Cnt Com Sch Corp runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,391 students. Brownstown Central Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Brownstown Central Middle School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). Other groups include 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Brownstown Central Middle School has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.5:1. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Brownstown Central Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.4%, the actual is 38.3%, a residual of -1.1 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Jackson County) records that median household income runs about $70,262, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Jackson County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,459 students), Brownstown Central Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Brownstown Central High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Brownstown Central Middle School at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 33.8%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Brownstown Central Middle School's enrollment has contracted 14% since 2018, when it stood at 355 (now 307). The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 today.

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