Summary:
Brownstown CUSD 201 has three schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: Brownstown Elementary School (PK–6), Brownstown Junior High School (7–8) and Brownstown High School (9–12). Together, they enroll 427 students, ranging from 61 at junior high to 264 at elementary. The clearest academic strength is junior-high ELA, while elementary mathematics and science show the largest measured gaps below state results.
Brownstown Junior High School stands out in ELA: 69% of students were proficient in 2025–26, 13 percentage points above the state rate; its grade 7 and 8 results were also above state rates. At Brownstown Elementary School, ELA proficiency was 47%, 9 points below the state, and mathematics was 25%, 15 points below. Elementary grade 5 science was 29%, 18 points below the state. Brownstown High School had sharply different science results by grade: grade 10 was 70%, 22 points above the state, while grade 9 was 34%, 13 points below. Its graduation rate was 91%, about 1 point above the state.
Recent changes are mixed rather than pointing to one area-wide trend. Junior-high all-grades ELA rose 14 percentage points from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while elementary ELA stayed near 47% and its gap with the state widened. High-school grade 10 science jumped 39 points, but grade 9 science fell 14 points. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking changed from 42 to 29 for elementary, from 39 to 62 for high school, and ended at 62 for junior high—the same as in 2023–24. For context, 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 61% at elementary, 54% at junior high and 69% at high school; student-teacher ratios were close, from 11.5 to 12.9. Since the schools serve different grades, their overall results are not direct like-grade comparisons.
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