Summary:
Five schools in Brandenburg, within Meade County, serve grades from prekindergarten through grade 12 and enroll 3,589 students; individual schools span PK–3 to grades 6–12. The clearest overall strength is at David T. Wilson Elementary, which exceeded state results in nine of its 10 reported 2025–2026 grade-and-subject results and tied the state in the other. Across all 27 reported results, schools averaged 3 points above the state, though performance varied by school and subject.
Barry Hahn Primary School stands out in grade 3: math and reading were each 21 points above the state. David T. Wilson was also consistently strong, averaging 8 points above the state across its reported results. Meade County High School had a strong grade 11 writing result at 55%, 8 points above the state, and a 97% graduation rate, 3 points above the state. The sharpest low result was at James R. Allen High School: grade 7 reading was 30%, 20 points below the state and 24 points below Stuart Pepper Middle School’s 54%. Stuart Pepper’s results were mixed, with some subjects above and others below the state.
Results over time show different paths: Barry Hahn’s grade 3 reading rose 12 points to 70%, while math slipped 1 point to 64%; David T. Wilson’s average state advantage narrowed from 12 to 8 points. Across matched results at four schools, the average advantage narrowed from 7 to 4 points, while Stuart Pepper’s SchoolDigger ranking fell from the 54th percentile to the 43rd. Stuart Pepper’s chronic absenteeism was 18%, below the state’s 24%; Meade County High’s was 28%, above the state. Student-teacher ratios range from 18.5 to 21.3. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible (FRL) figures were 74% at James R. Allen and 40–42% at the other four schools; these are contextual observations, not explanations for results. Many James R. Allen test scores are suppressed, so its other results cannot be compared.
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