Carson Middle School

Carson Middle School is a 6-8 campus of medium-sized scale in FORT CARSON, Colorado, overseen by Fountain School District No. 8 in the county of El Paso an, caters to 657 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 462 students each, so Carson Middle School sits 42% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Fountain School District No. 8 in the county of El Paso an, which oversees 13 schools and 7,955 students, Carson Middle School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Carson Middle School lists that 41% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 30% Hispanic, 13% Black, 9% multiracial, 3% Pacific Islander. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Carson Middle School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 43.0%; this one comes in at 23.2%, -19.8 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (El Paso County) shows that median household earnings sit near $90,363, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across El Paso County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), Carson Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Patriot Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Carson Middle School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 38.1%.

Carson Middle School operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 5%: 694 students in 2018 compared to 657 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 19% to 13% across the same window.

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