The top reported proficiency rate is 67% in Math. The lowest is 58% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Brooke Intermediate School North
Brooke Intermediate School North sits on Jefferson Street in Follansbee, a compact Ohio River town in West Virginia's Northern Panhandle. The school serves only third and fourth graders, making it a short two-year stop in a child's elementary path rather than a full K-5 building. That narrow grade band shapes almost everything about what families can and cannot see here. There is no graduation rate, no science results, no middle-school data, because the state does not test these grades at this school or does not test science until fifth grade. A parent looking for a long-range picture will need to piece it together with the other schools in the Brooke County system.
What is available looks solid. On the West Virginia General Summative Assessment, math proficiency runs well above what many schools in the state post, with a clear majority of third and fourth graders reaching proficient or above in both grades. Fourth-grade math edged ahead of third grade. English language arts results are more mixed. Third graders performed respectably, with most students proficient, but fourth-grade ELA proficiency dropped noticeably. That slide is the kind of thing a parent may want to look into further with the school, to understand whether it reflects a tougher fourth-grade standard, a cohort difference, or something instructional. Participation was essentially full across both grades and subjects, which means the results reflect nearly every enrolled student rather than a selected subset.
The student body is small, as one would expect for a two-grade building. It is predominantly white, with a handful of students from other racial backgrounds. Free and reduced-price lunch data was not reported, so it is hard to characterize the economic mix from the data alone. The same goes for special education and English learner counts, which were missing. Without those figures, a family relying on data to understand peer composition or support services will find gaps they may need to fill by calling the school directly.
Follansbee itself is a blue-collar river town with deep steel-industry roots. The Follansbee brothers founded it as a mill town, and manufacturing persists at the Wheeling-Nisshin steel plant, though the old coke-making operation closed in 2022, narrowing the industrial base. Main Street, which is also State Route 2, holds local restaurants and small shops. Residential streets fan out from that corridor in a compact grid. The town has been losing population steadily for decades, and no major housing developments or commercial expansions surfaced in publicly reported material. This is a place shaped by gradual contraction rather than growth.
Housing here is inexpensive relative to both state and national levels. Typical home values sit well below the West Virginia benchmark and far below national figures, and the estimated mortgage burden against a typical local income looks manageable. Rent data was not available, so renters will need to look elsewhere for pricing. For families buying, Follansbee offers one of the more affordable entry points in the region.
The school does not appear as a magnet or charter; it is a regular public school within Brooke County Schools. No specialty programs, course-access details, staffing ratios, discipline data, or attendance figures were available, so those dimensions of school life go unrendered here. The district brief turned up little of lasting impact in the way of recent parent-relevant changes, so there is no new initiative or restructuring to flag.
What a family gets at Brooke Intermediate School North is a small, focused two-year program in an affordable, tight-knit river town, with math results that stand out as a strength and ELA results that warrant a closer question or two. The missing economic and support-population data means the picture is incomplete in ways that matter to families thinking about fit.
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