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How has Andrew Carnegie Middle changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
843
Middle
DISTRICT 835 · STATE 659
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOS ANGELES UNIFIED·NCES 062271002896
Andrew Carnegie Middle
21820 Bonita St., Carson, CA 90745 · (310) 952-5700 · Los Angeles County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL843 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 71% of California public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public middle schools
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.2:1 · STATE 20.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
716 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 259 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 305 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 279 | 33% |
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on published attendance-zone data from Los Angeles Unified. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
45.6%
CA avg 49.1% . +19.6pp since 2014
Math
33.6%
CA avg 37.7% . +16.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 20 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 17 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 14.2% | 31.4% | 26.3% | 28.1% |
| Math | 16.6% | 17.0% | 27.5% | 39.0% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.6% | 33.6% |
| 2023-24 | 40.5% | 26.3% |
| 2022-23 | 40.1% | 27.1% |
| 2021-22 | 40.5% | 28.2% |
| 2018-19 | 30.6% | 25.4% |
| 2017-18 | 27.5% | 22.0% |
| 2016-17 | 29.4% | 18.4% |
| 2015-16 | 28.0% | 16.0% |
| 2014-15 | 26.0% | 17.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
36.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.8%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Andrew Carnegie Middle
Andrew Carnegie Middle's state test result (36.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Carnegie Middle this school | 843 | 84.9% | 36.6% |
| Hogan Middle Vallejo | 785 | 82.0% | 20.9% |
| Martin Luther King Jr. Junior High Pittsburg | 706 | 84.4% | 23.8% |
| Hillview Junior High Pittsburg | 893 | 81.2% | 19.9% |
| Vista Verde Middle Moreno Valley | 900 | 82.8% | 29.4% |
| Rancho Cucamonga Middle Rancho Cucamonga | 770 | 82.2% | 25.6% |
Matched among California middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Andrew Carnegie Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.6% | #594 of 1,224 | #133 of 248 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.6% | #525 of 1,227 ▲ 107 | #118 of 248 ▲ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.6% | #586 of 1,227 ▲ 59 | #128 of 248 ▲ 9 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.2pp | #293 of 1,214 | #95 of 247 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 843 | #377 of 1,377 | #87 of 317 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.4:1 | #142 of 1,279 | #45 of 301 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.6% | #465 of 1,278 | #61 of 301 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.9% | #414 of 1,329 | #150 of 312 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.8% | #871 of 930 | #201 of 213 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
843
+107 (+15%) vs 2020
-36% since 1990-91, when it was 1,323
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
was 21.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 843 | 48.4 | 17.4:1 | 85% (716) |
| 2023-24 | 838 | 48.9 | 17.1:1 | 83% (693) |
| 2022-23 | 812 | 46 | 17.6:1 | 82% (665) |
| 2020-21 | 736 | 34 | 21.6:1 | 80% (592) |
| 2017-18 | 867 | 37.5 | 23.1:1 | 77% (670) |
| 2015-16 | 924 | 39 | 23.7:1 | 73% (673) |
| 2010-11 | 1,363 | N/A | N/A | 77% (1,048) |
| 2000-01 | 1,591 | 67 | 23.8:1 | 71% (1,124) |
| 1990-91 | 1,323 | 62 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Andrew Carnegie Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (867 to 843); teachers up 29% (37.5 to 48.4).
About Andrew Carnegie Middle
Andrew Carnegie Middle is a middle school located in Carson, California, in Los Angeles County. Classes run from 6 through 8, and the school has 843 students. The average for middle schools in California is about 659 students, so this school is 28% larger than average.
The Los Angeles Unified system has 784 schools and 406,887 students.
At Andrew Carnegie Middle, Hispanic students make up 60% of the student body. It is also 20% Black, 13% Asian, and 5% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Los Angeles County is roughly 48% Hispanic. Andrew Carnegie Middle's diversity index is 59%, against a US figure of 70%.
The teaching staff at Andrew Carnegie Middle is 48.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 17.4:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 20.7:1 average for middle schools in California. About 85% of students, or 716, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Los Angeles County average 70%.
allk12 grades Andrew Carnegie Middle a B+. The grade compares the school only with California public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
Andrew Carnegie Middle's average proficiency rate on state tests of 36.6% is 6.8 points above the 29.8% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Los Angeles County census figures show that the median household income is $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 2,244 public schools in Los Angeles County, enrolling about 1,265,907 students in all.
The nearest other public school, Bonita Street Elementary, is about 0.2 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. On state test proficiency, Andrew Carnegie Middle ranks 8th in a group of 8 nearby schools.
NCES assigns Andrew Carnegie Middle the locale City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Over 4 years, Andrew Carnegie Middle's enrollment climbed 15%, to 843. The school's ratio fell from 21.6:1 to 17.4:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Los Angeles County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
9,808,667
Census ACS
Median income
$90,112
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
2,244
1,265,907 students
Quick facts
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Other Andrew Carnegie Middle schools
One other US public school is named Andrew Carnegie Middle. Andrew Carnegie Middle is the largest of the 2.
- Andrew Carnegie MiddleOrangevale, CA · 687 students
Nearby schools
- Bonita Street Elementary0.2 mi · 399
- Carson Street Elementary0.9 mi · 623
- Dolores Street Elementary1.0 mi · 370
- Carson Senior High1.0 mi · 1,407
- Academy of Medical Arts at Carson High1.0 mi · 438
- Academies of Education and Empowerment at Carson High1.0 mi · 474
Frequently asked questions
About Andrew Carnegie MiddleWhat is the total enrollment at Andrew Carnegie Middle?
Andrew Carnegie Middle enrolls approximately 843 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Andrew Carnegie Middle serve?
Andrew Carnegie Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Andrew Carnegie Middle?
Approximately 17.4:1 students per teacher at Andrew Carnegie Middle.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Andrew Carnegie Middle?
At Andrew Carnegie Middle, the student body is approximately 1% White, 60% Hispanic, 20% Black, 13% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Andrew Carnegie Middle public or private?
Andrew Carnegie Middle is a public K-12 school, overseen by Los Angeles Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.