Summary:
Brownstown, Illinois, has three schools serving students from prekindergarten through grade 12: Brownstown Elementary School (264 students), Brownstown Junior High School (61), and Brownstown High School (102). The clearest academic contrast is between strong current junior-high ELA and weaker elementary results, particularly in math: Junior High’s all-grades ELA proficiency is 69% versus 56% statewide, while Elementary is at 47% in ELA and 25% in math, compared with state results of 56% and 40%.
Brownstown Junior High School stands out at the top in current ELA, exceeding the state by 13 percentage points; both tested grades are above their state benchmarks. Brownstown Elementary School is the clearest concern in the available elementary results: its math result is 15 points below the state, and its ELA result is 9 points below. At Brownstown High School, results differ sharply by grade and subject: grade 10 science is 70% versus 48% statewide, while grade 9 is 34% versus 47%. High-school ELA is closer to state results, slightly above in grade 9 and slightly below in grade 10.
Recent trends are mixed rather than uniformly improving. Elementary’s all-grades ELA gap widened from 6 points below the state in 2024–25 to 9 points below in 2025–26, while Junior High’s advantage grew from 3 points to 13. High-school science also diverged by grade: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, grade 9 fell 14 percentage points and grade 10 rose 39. SchoolDigger’s rankings reflect different trajectories: Elementary moved from the 42nd to the 29th percentile, Junior High was at the 62nd percentile in both comparison years, and High rose from the 39th to the 62nd. In 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible rates were 61% at Elementary, 54% at Junior High, and 69% at High; student-teacher ratios were 12.9, 11.5, and 11.8, respectively. These are useful context, not explanations of achievement; the schools serve different grades, limiting direct school-to-school comparisons.
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