R A Brown Middle School

As an average-sized middle school in Hillsboro, Oregon, R A Brown Middle School enrolls 653 students from grades 7 through 8, overseen by Hillsboro SD 1J. Compared to the state average of about 494 students per school, that is 32% bigger than typical.

Within Hillsboro SD 1J, which oversees 37 schools and 18,465 students, R A Brown Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, R A Brown Middle School records that the largest single group is White at 37%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 34% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 11% multiracial, 3% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

On the resource side, The school lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 19.3:1 average. Roughly 68% of students at R A Brown Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Washington County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, R A Brown Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.3%, the actual is 37.1%, a residual of +0.8 points.

In the surrounding community, Washington County reports that the typical household earns roughly $107,772 per year, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Washington County's 136 public schools (combined enrollment of about 79,469 students), R A Brown Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Indian Hills Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, R A Brown Middle School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 36.1%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at R A Brown Middle School has ticked down 13%, going from 751 students in 2018 to 653 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 44% to 37%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 25.4:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 today.

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