Brown Middle School

Size

Brown Middle School is the smallest of Forney ISD's 8 middle schools; its 568 students are 3.1% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 3.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 742; Brown Middle School is smaller 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 8 with 298 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 270, against an average of 284 per grade. This year grade 8 has 10% more students than grade 7 (298 against 270). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 68.5% here and 43.1% across Forney ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 18.3%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

75.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 48.5% across Forney ISD and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

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

Teachers

With 39 full-time-equivalent teachers for 568 students, Brown Middle School has 14.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 568 students would have about 39.4 teachers, so Brown Middle School has about as many as that.

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 in a town no more than 10 miles from an urbanized area, which NCES calls town, fringe. The nearest other middle school is Smith Intermediate School, 0.8 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 14 other middle schools, 7 of them within 5 miles.

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