Brownstown County Com School Corp

The Brownstown County Com School Corp is a small southern Indiana district serving 1,391 students across three schools — one elementary (PK–5), one middle (6–8), and one high school (9–12) — and it ranks 153rd of 374 Indiana districts, at the 59th percentile with a 3-star rating.

Each school tells a different story. Brownstown Central Middle School currently ranks highest, at the 61st percentile (191st of 486, 3 stars), and has climbed steadily from 49th to 60th to 61st percentile over three years; its 8th-grade ELA proficiency of 58.95% far exceeds the state's 44%. Brownstown Central High School posts the strongest outcomes — a 92.3% graduation rate versus the state's 89.7%, the lowest chronic absenteeism at 11.0%, the lowest free/reduced lunch rate at 35.21%, and the lowest student-teacher ratio at 13.8 — but its rank has swung from 49th to 73rd to 56th percentile, and SAT Math fell to 22% against the state's 25.6%. Brownstown Elementary School is the largest school at 621 students, ranks lowest at the 49th percentile with 2 stars, yet has improved from 39th to 42nd to 49th percentile; its 5th-grade ELA (51.89% vs. 42.2% state) and Social Studies (53.77% vs. 47.2%) are strengths, while 4th-grade math (37.5% vs. 52%) and 3rd-grade ELA (31.91% vs. 40.8%) lag.

Across all three schools, chronic absenteeism sits below the state's 16.7%, with the district at 12.9%. Math is the shared weak spot, and the middle school's all-grades science drop from 49.45% to 34.55% — a 14.90-point decline — is the largest year-over-year slide in the data. Per-student spending is $10,965 at the elementary, $11,773 at the middle, and $11,732 at the high school. Overall, this is a district performing above the state median but unevenly by school and subject.