BROWNFIELD MIDDLE
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 20 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BROWNFIELD MIDDLE
As a tight-knit middle school in BROWNFIELD, Texas, BROWNFIELD MIDDLE caters to 327 students from grades 6 through 8, run under BROWNFIELD ISD. That puts it 49% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.
Within BROWNFIELD ISD, which oversees 5 schools and 1,608 students, BROWNFIELD MIDDLE is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, BROWNFIELD MIDDLE lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 78% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 20% White. By comparison, Terry County as a whole is about 57% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, The school reports having 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting BROWNFIELD MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Terry County runs at roughly 80%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, BROWNFIELD MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.4%; this one delivers 30.4%.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Terry County put median household earnings sit near $44,100, about 10% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. BROWNFIELD MIDDLE is one of 7 public schools in Terry County (combined enrollment of about 2,086 students).
BROWNFIELD H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BROWNFIELD MIDDLE ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 36.5%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Trend over the last 7 years. BROWNFIELD MIDDLE's enrollment has fell 9% since 2018, when it stood at 358 (now 327). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.
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