Browning Springs Middle School

Browning Springs Middle School operates as a modestly sized middle school in Madisonville, Kentucky, one of the schools within Hopkins County. Current enrollment sits at 443 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 21% leaner than the state mean of about 558.

Within Hopkins County, which oversees 14 schools and 6,265 students, Browning Springs Middle School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Browning Springs Middle School logs that White students make up the majority at 67%. Other groups include 14% Black, 10% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 61% of students at Browning Springs Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Browning Springs Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.5%, the actual is 33.1%, a residual of -9.4 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Hopkins County indicate median household earnings sit near $56,815, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Browning Springs Middle School is one of 22 public schools in Hopkins County (combined enrollment of about 6,896 students).

Nearest neighbor: West Broadway Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Browning Springs Middle School at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 43.1%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Browning Springs Middle School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 444 (now 443). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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