Summary:
ZIP code 56438 is home to two public schools — Browerville Elementary, serving grades PK–6 with 275 students, and Browerville Secondary, serving grades 7–12 with 291 students — both in the Browerville Public School District, sharing a campus at 620 Park Ave N in Browerville and totaling 566 students. Because the secondary school covers grades 7–12, middle-grade results are folded into it; there is no separate middle school.
Academically, the two schools look quite different. Elementary math is the area's clearest strength: 3rd grade math reached 71.1% proficient versus the state's 57.9%, and 4th grade math (55.0%) is essentially at the state level (55.2%). But that strength fades in the upper elementary grades, where 5th grade math is 32.6% and 6th grade just 26.8%, both well below state. Reading is the shared weak spot — 36.9% at the elementary school and 30.4% at the secondary school, against a state mark of 48.6% — with 7th grade reading (21.4% vs. 43.5%) the single largest gap. At the secondary school, science end-of-course results (36.6%) edge past the state (35.0%), while 8th grade science trails at 12.5% vs. 16.7%.
Rankings show some drift. The district sits at 294 of 458 statewide — 36th percentile, 2 stars. Browerville Elementary slipped from 54th percentile and 3 stars in 2023–2024 to 35th percentile and 2 stars in 2025–2026, while Browerville Secondary eased from the 49th to the 45th percentile, still 2 stars, so the secondary school now ranks higher than the elementary school. For older students, the 2024–2025 graduation rate was 78.9% (state: 84.9%), though the dropout rate of 3.5% was better than the state's 4.2%.
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