Brown Middle School

Size

Brown Middle School is the 5th largest of El Paso ISD's 9 middle schools; its 699 students are 1.5% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 7.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 556; Brown Middle School is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 7 with 254 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 213, against an average of 233 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 232 in grade 6 and 213 in grade 8.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 89.6% here and 84.1% across El Paso ISD. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

64.8% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 71.3% across El Paso ISD and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 42.59 full-time-equivalent teachers for 699 students, Brown Middle School has 16.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 699 students would have about 48.5 teachers, so Brown Middle School has 5.9 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas middle schools (14.4).

Location

Brown Middle School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other middle school is Jose J Alderete Middle School, 2.5 miles away in Canutillo ISD. Within 10 miles there are 11 other middle schools, 3 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.