AP® exam: only 21% of the students who take the exams score three or higher. In 2022, the school was ranked in the 46.6 percentile on its student performance exams, which is well below expectations. Neighboring Hillcrest High School, by comparison, was ranked in the 72.9 percentile. 20% of Hillcrest's graduating students as a whole scored a three or higher on at least one AP® exam and among those who took an AP® exam, 60% scored a three or higher on at least one. Brookwood's college readiness index is a 9.6/100. Northside, another high school in the TCSS system with half the student population of Brookwood, scored a 25/100 on the same index. Sports Brookwood High School offers several extracurricular sports activities for students. In 2015, the BHS boys' basketball team lost to Bibb County High School by a score of 2–0, the lowest-scoring high school basketball game in recorded history. In ninety-two seasons of football play, the BHS Panthers have only won their region three times. The Panthers are 0-5 in football playoff games. The team's overall winning percentage is 36%. The boys' wrestling team, however, won a state title in 2000. The most consistently successful sports teams at BHS are the boys' baseball team and the girls' softball team. Boys baseball has won six area championships and made three elite eight appearances in fifty-four years of play. The softball team has won six area championships and made two elite eight appearances in thirty-four years of play. Sports teams Cheerleading Football (V & JV) Baseball (V & JV) Basketball, Girls (V) Basketball, Boys (V & JV) Golf, Boys Softball (V & JV) Volleyball (V & JV) Wrestling Track Power Puff Girls (Seniors, female v. Juniors, female) Fishing Team Feeder schools Middle schools Brookwood Middle School (Brookwood, Alabama) (grades 6-8) Elementary schools Brookwood Elementary School (Brookwood, Alabama) (grades K-5) Vance Elementary School (Vance, Alabama) (grades K-5) Lake View Elementary School (Lake View, Alabama) (grades K-5) Notable Incidents Brookwood High School has been plagued with illicit student-teacher relationships. Katherine Nelson Katherine Nelson is a 2004 graduate of Brookwood High School who returned there to teach English and coach cheerleading and golf after graduating from The University of Alabama in 2009. On February 24, 2016, the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's office began investigating Nelson after the TCSS forwarded an email from an unidentified third party claiming to have caught Nelson in the act