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East Side Elementary School

Public Grades 3-4
830th
SchoolDigger Rank ?
of 1,019 Tennessee Elementary Schools
Better than 19% of Tennessee elementary schools
Summary

East Side Elementary School in Brownsville, TN is a small school serving 320 students in just 3rd and 4th grade as part of the Haywood County Schools district, which ranks in the bottom 1% of Tennessee districts. The school is part of a grade-band structure where Anderson Early Childhood School serves PK–K, Haywood Elementary School serves grades 1–2, and East Side serves grades 3–4, making it the "middle piece" of the district's elementary pipeline.

Academically, East Side outperforms its district by a wide margin in every subject on recent TNReady tests—24.4% proficiency in math compared to the district's 17.0%, 33.2% in ELA versus 24.2%, and 31.7% in science versus 24.8%—though it still trails state averages significantly, especially in math where the gap is nearly 19 points. The school has shown strong recent momentum, with math proficiency more than doubling from 11.4% in 2023–2024 to 24.4% in 2025–2026, and ELA rising from 20.8% to 33.2% over the same period. When compared to nearby schools, East Side's results are well below schools in the Crockett County Schools district—Gadsden Elementary, Maury City Elementary, and Alamo Elementary all post math scores between 60% and 69%—but the school does outpace Whiteville Elementary, which reported just 12.6% ELA proficiency.

One of East Side's clearest strengths is its low chronic absenteeism rate of 10.1%, roughly half the district and state averages, and well below nearby schools like Whiteville Elementary (24.4%) and Denmark Elementary (21.1%). The school also shows notable bright spots for specific student groups: Hispanic students rank at the 59th percentile statewide, and English Learner students rank at the 61st percentile. Similarly, achievement for low-income students has jumped from the 6th to 23rd percentile, and special education students have improved from the 5th to the mid-20s percentile. The school spends a relatively high $15,402 per student with a low student–teacher ratio of about 14:1, but ongoing challenges include a statewide ranking in the bottom fifth of Tennessee elementary schools and notably low outcomes for male students, who rank between the 8th and 12th percentile in recent years.

320
Students ?
14.4
Student/teacher ratio ?
$15,402
Per pupil spending ?
89.4%
Free/discounted lunch ?
 1315 East Jefferson
       Brownsville, TN  38012

(731) 772-1233

District: Haywood County Schools


Students who attend East Side Elementary School usually attend:

Middle:    Haywood Middle School
    Sunny Hill Intermediate School
High:    Haywood High School
Racial breakdown:

African American:
63.8%
White:
23.8%
Hispanic:
7.5%
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At a glance
▲ Ranking trend: Improving — 13th percentile in 2014 → 19th in 2026
Strengths
✓Ranking is trending up — up 6 percentile points since 2014
Worth a look
!Test scores below the Tennessee average (30% vs 43% meeting standards)
!In the lower quartile statewide (19th percentile)
!Mathematics scores 19 pts below the Tennessee average
Students meeting standards (2025-2026) ?
This school30%
District avg22%
Tennessee avg43%
830th of 1,019
Tennessee public elementary schools ?
Bottom 19%▲ up 8 pts since 2018
From bottom 11% (2018) to bottom 19% (2026)
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SchoolDigger rating ?
140th of 141Haywood County Schools among Tennessee districts
Statewide rank percentile over time (100 = the top-ranked school in the state; click a legend item to add a student group)
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All Students

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankTennessee percentileRating
202622.3830 of 101918.5%★☆☆☆☆
202518.6852 of 100915.6%★☆☆☆☆
202414.0903 of 101811.3%★☆☆☆☆
202314.3893 of 102012.5%★☆☆☆☆
202220.1815 of 100018.5%★☆☆☆☆
20219.9910 of 9837.4%☆☆☆☆☆
201918.2855 of 98513.2%★☆☆☆☆
201815.9889 of 99710.8%★☆☆☆☆
201525.9732 of 85514.4%★☆☆☆☆
201420.2746 of 85312.5%★☆☆☆☆
201323.9767 of 8469.3%☆☆☆☆☆

African American

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankTennessee percentileRating
202634.3328 of 49834.1%★★☆☆☆
202527.2372 of 49825.3%★☆☆☆☆
202422.8400 of 49819.7%★☆☆☆☆
202321.2414 of 50017.2%★☆☆☆☆
202228.7339 of 48329.8%★★☆☆☆
202115.6401 of 4112.4%☆☆☆☆☆
201918.5364 of 4049.9%★☆☆☆☆
201821.7394 of 45012.4%★☆☆☆☆

English Language Learner

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankTennessee percentileRating
202550.183 of 21160.7%★★★☆☆

Female

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankTennessee percentileRating
202522.3805 of 98618.4%★☆☆☆☆
202416.9855 of 99013.6%★☆☆☆☆
202316.7852 of 98913.9%★☆☆☆☆
202223.6754 of 97522.7%★☆☆☆☆
202110.7871 of 9457.8%☆☆☆☆☆
201917.3816 of 92611.9%★☆☆☆☆

Hispanic

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankTennessee percentileRating
202652.5187 of 45859.2%★★★☆☆
202528.9322 of 42424.1%★☆☆☆☆
202445.4219 of 41547.2%★★☆☆☆
202362.8111 of 38771.3%★★★★☆
202231.3261 of 36328.1%★☆☆☆☆
201937.6148 of 25040.8%★★☆☆☆
201847.3148 of 31953.6%★★★☆☆

Low Socio Economic Status

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankTennessee percentileRating
202630.1631 of 82323.3%★☆☆☆☆
202530.2659 of 84321.8%★☆☆☆☆
202416.0798 of 8536.4%☆☆☆☆☆
202315.0805 of 8656.9%☆☆☆☆☆
202221.7748 of 85812.8%★☆☆☆☆
201913.9787 of 8214.1%☆☆☆☆☆
201817.5818 of 8776.7%☆☆☆☆☆

Male

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankTennessee percentileRating
202515.6870 of 98411.6%★☆☆☆☆
202414.1893 of 9919.9%☆☆☆☆☆
202312.7908 of 9878.0%☆☆☆☆☆
202217.3846 of 98013.7%★☆☆☆☆
202110.7866 of 9418.0%☆☆☆☆☆
201919.2791 of 91613.6%★☆☆☆☆

Special Education

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankTennessee percentileRating
202526.8485 of 61821.5%★☆☆☆☆
202428.6438 of 58224.7%★☆☆☆☆
202219.8425 of 4474.9%☆☆☆☆☆
201818.7381 of 3953.5%☆☆☆☆☆

White

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankTennessee percentileRating
202630.2631 of 84925.7%★☆☆☆☆
202530.0610 of 84027.4%★☆☆☆☆
202424.8687 of 84718.9%★☆☆☆☆
202321.1736 of 85213.6%★☆☆☆☆
202236.1550 of 84434.8%★★☆☆☆
202116.3778 of 8447.8%☆☆☆☆☆
201944.1425 of 81247.7%★★☆☆☆
201827.6665 of 84120.9%★☆☆☆☆
How student groups rank statewide ? (each group's percentile vs the same group at other schools — higher is better; the +/- beside each compares the group with this school's overall percentile)
English Language Learner (2025)61st percentile+45 vs school
Hispanic (2026)59th percentile+41 vs school
African American (2026)34th percentile+16 vs school
White (2026)26th percentile+7 vs school
Low Socio Economic Status (2026)23rd percentile+5 vs school
Special Education (2025)22nd percentile+6 vs school
Female (2025)18th percentile+3 vs school
Male (2025)12th percentile-4 vs school
By subject vs Tennessee (2025-2026) ?
English Language Arts33%-7 vs state
Science32%-15 vs state
Mathematics24%-19 vs state

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Students at East Side Elementary School are 64% African American, 24% White, 8% Hispanic, 3% Two or more races, 2% American Indian.

East Side Elementary School ranks in the bottom 18.5% of Tennessee elementary schools.

Students who attend East Side Elementary School usually go on to attend:

Middle : Haywood Middle School
Middle : Sunny Hill Intermediate School
High : Haywood High School

In the 2024-25 school year, 320 students attended East Side Elementary School.

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Latest Tennessee data All new data »
2025–26 TNReady test scoresAug 25, 2026
2024–25 dropout ratesApr 2, 2026
2024–25 school spending dataFeb 27, 2026
2024–25 attendance dataDec 18, 2025


SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Tennessee Department of Education.

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