BROWNVILLE SCHOOL

BROWNVILLE SCHOOL is a cozy elementary-level community in BROWNVILLE, New York, run under GENERAL BROWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school caters to 374 students in grades 3 through 6.

Within GENERAL BROWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 1,349 students, BROWNVILLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, BROWNVILLE SCHOOL reports that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 3% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BROWNVILLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.8%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate median household earnings sit near $66,301, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Jefferson County's 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,789 students), BROWNVILLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is JEFFERSON-LEWIS-HAMILTON-HERKIMER-ONEIDA BOCES, roughly 2.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BROWNVILLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 45.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BROWNVILLE SCHOOL has ticked down 30%, going from 531 students in 2018 to 374 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.

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