Summary:
ZIP code 56219 contains exactly one middle school: Browns Valley Middle, a grades 5–9 school serving 77 students in Browns Valley, Minnesota, as part of the Browns Valley Public School District. Because it is the only middle school in the area, there is no local school-to-school comparison to make; the useful benchmarks are the school against its district, against Minnesota statewide averages, and against its own past performance.
Reading is the school's relative strength. In 2025–26, all-grade reading proficiency was 42.9%, roughly 11 points above the district's 31.6% but below the state's 48.6%. Math was more mixed: the school reached 34.3% versus the district's 31.6%, yet trailed the state's 44.9%, and grade 6 math (42.1% versus 39.5% statewide) was the only grade-level subject result above the state average. Science was the weakest area, at 18.2%, down from 30% the prior year and below the state's 25.5%; grade 8 science came in at just 13.3%, the lowest current grade-level result. Grade 8 math also lagged, 15.6 points behind the state. In 2024–25 the picture was different — science was then above the state average — showing how much results shift year to year.
The school's rank history has been steady, sitting around the 47th–48th percentile with 2 stars for three years, while the district overall ranks at the 23rd percentile with 1 star. Those district figures reflect all schools and grade levels, not just the middle school. With only 77 students, a free/reduced lunch rate of 68.83%, and a 19.8 student-to-teacher ratio, year-to-year swings reflect a small cohort and should be read as directional rather than definitive.
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