Brenham Middle, Brenham TX - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Brenham Middle

Brenham Middle serves grades five and six in a town setting about an hour from Houston and Austin. The school draws from a community that is steady, mix-income, and anchored by Blue Bell Creameries as a major employer alongside county government, regional healthcare, and manufacturing.

The student body is economically diverse. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The enrollment splits roughly into three large groups by race and ethnicity: Hispanic, white, and Black students, with smaller Asian and multiracial populations. The school has no special education or English learner counts reported in the data available.

Academic performance is a soft spot that a parent should look into further with the school. In English language arts, proficiency sits around the midpoint at the fifth-grade level and the same at sixth grade. In math, fifth grade shows similar proficiency, but sixth-grade performance drops notably lower. Science proficiency is particularly low, hovering near one in five students across fifth grade. Relative to other districts in Washington County, Brenham Middle's overall proficiency index places it in the bottom tier. The school also reports that across all tested subjects, about two in three students reached the "approaches" performance level—the lowest proficiency tier—while only about one in five reached the highest mastery level.

This pattern suggests the school serves students with widely varying readiness and that math and science comprehension warrant attention. The sixth-grade math dip in particular is a pattern a parent might ask the school about: whether it reflects curriculum sequencing, teaching staff, or student factors.

Facility conditions have been a district-level issue. Brenham ISD's junior high (a separate school from this one, located across town) was cited for decades-old building problems. In November 2025, voters approved a bond and a new recurring tax measure to address aging infrastructure across the district, so improvement work is now underway, but this school's own specific conditions are not described in the available data.

The town of Brenham itself is growing modestly, with steady housing development, a walkable downtown anchored by the courthouse and galleries, and a mix of older character homes and modern subdivisions. Housing costs are moderate relative to the state and national benchmarks. The school sits on a separated campus away from the downtown core, consistent with how most of the district's seven schools are configured.

No information on program offerings, teaching approaches, discipline, attendance, or staffing was available in the data examined.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 546%

School 46% · District 46%

▲ 5 pts above state median

Grade 629%

School 29% · District 29%

▼ 5 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 546%

School 46% · district not reported

▼ 8 pts below state median

Grade 646%

School 46% · District 46%

▼ 6 pts below state median

Science

Grade 520%

School 20% · district not reported

▼ 3 pts below state median

This schoolBRENHAM ISD, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 5Lower-income28%Higher-income70%42 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income31%Higher-income71%40 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 5Lower-income32%Higher-income66%34 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income14%Higher-income53%39 pp gap