Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools.
5 public K-12 schools in Browns Summit from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Browns Summit has more public-school enrollment than 16% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Browns Summit has fewer enrolled students than most listed city systems, but its student-teacher ratio still falls on the more crowded side of the national distribution. That pairing rules out a simple “large city” explanation for the staffing load. Campus size, grade configuration, vacancies, and district boundaries become the more relevant questions; the profiles below expose those fields school by school without turning the ratio into a quality verdict.
Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio
2 of Browns Summit's 5 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.
High measured need meets a thin staffing ratio
Browns Summit's reporting schools show 67.6% free-lunch eligibility across measured enrollment, alongside an average 18.6:1 student-teacher ratio. These are separate constraints: one describes the economic context of enrolled students and the other compares student and teacher headcounts. The 28-point gap between Brown Summit Middle and Summit Creek Academy is therefore more useful than the city mean alone. A school with a similar ratio may still report different counselor access, attendance, or gifted-program availability, so open the campus records before drawing conclusions about student support.
City enrollment
Top 84%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
33rd percentile
Teacher staffing
22nd percentile
Summit Creek Academy accounts for 33.9% of all Browns Summit public-school enrollment
That dominant concentration means Browns Summit-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.
Browns Summit school enrollment varies 3.1× across entities
Browns Summit school enrollment ranges from 242 students (lowest) to 749 students (highest), a spread of 507 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.
The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Browns Summit student-teacher ratio is 18.6:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)
student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
2 of Browns Summit's 5 listed schools are charters
40% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.
Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Browns Summit
Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.
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Which Browns Summit school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼
Brown Summit Middle has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Browns Summit schools in this federal-data comparison at 56/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
How many schools are in Browns Summit, NC? ▼
Browns Summit has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,207 students. 2 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 18.6:1.
Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio,
counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes:
verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.
