Middle Schools in Brookwood School District 167

The two middle schools in Brookwood School District 167 serve grades 5–8 across separate campuses: Brookwood Middle School serves grades 5–6, and Brookwood Junior High School serves grades 7–8; together, they enroll 457 students. In 2025–2026, their unweighted average proficiency was 40% in ELA, compared with 56% statewide, and 11% in math, compared with 40% statewide. The most important shared concern is math: proficiency is 24 percentage points below the state at Junior High and 32 points below at Middle.

Brookwood Junior High School stands out in the all-grades results, with 55% proficient in ELA and 15% in math, versus 26% and 7% at Brookwood Middle School. That is a 29-point ELA difference and an 8-point math difference. Junior High is just 2 points below the state in ELA, while Middle is 30 points below. Grade-level comparisons against each grade’s state benchmark show gaps of 26 and 36 points in Middle’s grades 5 and 6 ELA, and 3 and 8 points in Junior High’s grades 7 and 8. The campuses serve different grades, so their all-grades scores are not a same-grade comparison.

Recent results show mixed progress: the two-school ELA average rose by 1 point from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, but the state improved more and the average shortfall widened by 3 points. The math average rose by 4 points, narrowing its gap with the state by 3 points. Science proficiency also rose at both campuses, though state results rose at least as fast. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking for Junior High moved from the 42nd percentile in 2023–2024 to the 22nd percentile in 2025–2026, and its star rating fell from 2 to 1. The schools have similar student–teacher ratios—18.4 at Middle and 18.0 at Junior High—and reported free/reduced lunch eligible shares in 2024–2025 of 69% and 65%, respectively. Chronic absenteeism remains high at both: 36% at Middle and 31% at Junior High, compared with 24% statewide.