Brown Deer Middle/High

Located at 8060 N 60th St, in Brown Deer, Wisconsin, Brown Deer Middle/High is a large secondary school that serves 904 students (grades 6 through 12), overseen by Brown Deer School District. Compared to the state average of about 475 students per school, that is 90% bigger than typical.

Brown Deer School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 1,613 students; Brown Deer Middle/High is among them.

On demographics, Brown Deer Middle/High reports that the largest single group is Black, at 58% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 14% Asian, 12% White, 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 26% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Brown Deer Middle/High has 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.6:1, putting Brown Deer Middle/High tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 55% of students at Brown Deer Middle/High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Milwaukee County (around 64%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Brown Deer Middle/High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.3%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Milwaukee County) records that median household income runs about $64,435, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Brown Deer Middle/High is one of 284 public schools in Milwaukee County (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students).

Nearest neighbor: Thoreau Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Brown Deer Middle/High ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 19.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 22%: 744 students in 2018 compared to 904 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 23% to 12% over that span.

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