The top reported proficiency rate is 60% in English language arts. The lowest is 35% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Brookville Jshs
Brookville JSHS is a combined junior and senior high school serving grades seven through twelve in a rural Jefferson County borough. The school enrolls students across all six grades, with the largest cohorts in grades seven and eight, a middle-tier ninth grade, and then recovery in tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades.
The student body is overwhelmingly white, with a very small share of students of color. All enrolled students qualify for free or reduced-price meals, indicating a community where economic hardship is widespread. The district recently adopted universal free breakfast and lunch through the federal Community Eligibility Provision, so families receive this daily benefit without application or stigma.
In state testing, the school shows uneven performance. English language arts proficiency sits at roughly three-fifths of students, a solid foundation for the school's grade band. Mathematics proficiency is much weaker, at roughly one-third, suggesting that quantitative skills are a real soft spot. Compared to the other districts in Jefferson County, the school's overall proficiency index falls below the midpoint. State assessment data for high school grades were not available, so readers do not see how grades nine through twelve perform on Keystone exams or other high school-level state measures; this gap likely reflects that the school either did not report those results or that the state does not publish them in the format used here.
A four-year graduation rate for the school was not reported in the available data. Whether this reflects a missing data point, a school-specific reporting gap, or the nature of combined junior-senior high structures could not be determined from the records.
The school sits in Brookville, a county-seat borough with a walkable Victorian Main Street and a preserved historic core anchored by downtown civic institutions. The town's population has declined gradually over recent decades, and new housing has been limited mostly to subsidized senior and low-income developments rather than market-rate growth. The area's economy relies on health care, manufacturing including locomotive and refrigeration equipment, and glass container production. Job availability and wage levels shape the economic reality families at the school face.
The district is in the midst of significant structural change. In November 2025, the school board voted to close Pinecreek Elementary and consolidate first and second grades into an addition to Hickory Grove Elementary, moving the district from four schools to three. This reshaping of elementary pathways, busing patterns, and where young children attend school will be accompanied by a substantial construction project that will influence the district's budget and tax capacity for years ahead.
For the 2025-26 school year, the district raised property taxes for the first time in several years, shifting the tax burden from an eliminated occupational assessment to a higher real estate millage. This represents a durably different funding model affecting different segments of the community.
Program offerings, course breadth, career and vocational pathways, staffing, and attendance data for the school were not available. Parents considering Brookville JSHS for their child may want to ask the school directly about AP and dual-credit course availability, CTE or career-focused options, and how the junior-senior combined structure shapes academic tracking and student experience. The combination of struggling math proficiency and missing high school assessment data suggests a parent may want to look into further detail with the school about how its secondary curriculum is built and where additional academic support is available.
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