Summary:
ZIP code 38011 is served by a single middle school, Brighton Middle School, which enrolls 745 students in grades 6–8 and is part of the Tipton County Schools district in Brighton, Tennessee. The school has maintained a 4-star state rating for three consecutive years, ranks 149 out of 594 Tennessee middle schools, and sits in the 75th percentile statewide. Its ranking has improved steadily, moving from 160th in 2023–2024 to 149th for the 2025–2026 school year.
Academically, Brighton Middle is strongest in Science and Social Studies. Science proficiency is 58.4%, well above the district's 50.4% and the state's 46.9%, while Social Studies proficiency is 62.0% compared with 58.0% for the district and 51.4% for the state. Mathematics is also above the state average at 45.5% versus 43.0%, though slightly below the district's 48.9%. The most significant weakness is English Language Arts, where only 35.2% of students are proficient, trailing both the district (39.6%) and the state (40.6%). Grade-level patterns show 6th graders performing strongest overall, but 7th-grade math dips sharply to 39.5%, and 8th-grade ELA is particularly low at 29.6%, with 8th-grade Social Studies also slipping to 48.2%.
Brighton Middle has shown year-over-year improvement in most subjects, with Science gaining 4.9 points and Math gaining 2.3 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, though Social Studies declined by 2.0 points over the same period. The school's chronic absenteeism rate of 12.6% is encouragingly low compared with the district's 14.0% and the state's 18.3%, and per-student spending is $10,059. Overall, Brighton Middle is a solidly above-average school with notable strengths in science and social studies, but parents should be aware that English Language Arts—particularly in 8th grade—and 7th-grade math are the areas most in need of attention.
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