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Alumni: what's one memory from JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
859
Middle
DISTRICT 717 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PINELLAS·NCES 120156001978
JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL
3301 BENTLEY DR, PALM HARBOR, FL 34684 · (727) 724-1442 · Pinellas County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL859 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 75% of Florida public middle schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public middle schools
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.2:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
267 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 50%
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 | 254 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 293 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 312 | 36% |
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 70% · 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
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
72.6%
FL avg 56.7% . +9.2pp since 2023
Math
75.9%
FL avg 58.9% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.6% | 75.9% |
| 2023-24 | 63.3% | 75.9% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. 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
67.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% typical for Florida 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 Florida'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 JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL
JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (67.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 859 | 31.1% | 67.0% |
| DR MONA JAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL BRADENTON | 933 | 33.4% | 66.2% |
| R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL BRADENTON | 787 | 28.7% | 71.6% |
| WOODLAWN BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL GULF BREEZE | 882 | 34.6% | 66.8% |
| NORTH NAPLES MIDDLE SCHOOL NAPLES | 909 | 30.0% | 78.9% |
| RIVER RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL NEW PORT RICHEY | 1,026 | 33.7% | 53.5% |
Matched among Florida 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 JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Pinellas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #117 of 560 | #4 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.9% | #100 of 560 ▼ 19 | #3 of 19 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.6% | #80 of 560 ▲ 28 | #3 of 19 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 859 | #248 of 584 | #6 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.5:1 | #122 of 547 | #6 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.0% | #356 of 553 | #17 of 20 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.1% | #469 of 565 | #17 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.5% | #69 of 379 | #5 of 18 |
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
859
-382 (-31%) vs 2020
-43% since 2000-01, when it was 1,498
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
was 19.4:1
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 | 859 | 49.1 | 17.5:1 | 31% (267) |
| 2023-24 | 957 | 55 | 17.4:1 | 35% (333) |
| 2022-23 | 1,098 | 58 | 18.9:1 | 38% (421) |
| 2020-21 | 1,241 | 64 | 19.4:1 | 30% (377) |
| 2017-18 | 1,168 | 61 | 19.1:1 | 33% (380) |
| 2015-16 | 1,091 | 60 | 18.2:1 | 42% (458) |
| 2010-11 | 1,280 | 66 | 19.4:1 | 26% (330) |
| 2000-01 | 1,498 | 67 | 22.4:1 | 16% (247) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL
JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school with a street address in PALM HARBOR, Florida. Enrollment stands at 859 students, covering grades 6 through 8.
JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one school in PINELLAS, a system of 151 schools with 87,955 students.
Federal enrollment data show JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL is 66% White. Next come 20% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% multiracial, and 4% Asian. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 52%.
On staff are 49.1 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 17.5:1. Middle schools in Florida have an average ratio of 19.6:1. About 31% of students at JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Pinellas County average 45%.
On the allk12 Grade, JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL lands at A-, ahead of 75% of Florida public middle schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of Florida schools: 67.0% actual against 65.6% predicted.
In Pinellas County, the median household earns about $72,646 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Pinellas County has 155 public schools with about 87,955 students, including JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is HIGHLAND LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.9 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 67.0% is below the 76.4% average for nearby schools.
Locale data from NCES put JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
In 2020-21, JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolled 1,241 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 859. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (17.5:1) than in 2020-21 (19.4:1).
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Pinellas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
963,481
Census ACS
Median income
$72,646
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
155
87,955 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PINELLAS
- PALM HARBOR UNIVERSITY HIGHHigh · 2,413 students
- LARGO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,058 students
- EAST LAKE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,980 students
- DIXIE M. HOLLINS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,934 students
- ST. PETERSBURG HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,736 students
- OSCEOLA FUNDAMENTAL HIGHHigh · 1,706 students
Other schools in PALM HARBOR
- PALM HARBOR UNIVERSITY HIGHHigh · 2,413 students
- PALM HARBOR MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,017 students
- OZONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 727 students
- CYPRESS WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 676 students
- CURLEW CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 610 students
- SUTHERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 564 students
Nearby schools
- HIGHLAND LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 449
- SUTHERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 564
- LAKE ST. GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.2 mi · 499
- PALM HARBOR UNIVERSITY HIGH2.2 mi · 2,413
- PALM HARBOR MIDDLE SCHOOL2.2 mi · 1,017
- ELISA NELSON ELEMENTARY2.4 mi · 421
Frequently asked questions
About JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 859 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 17.5:1 (49 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 66% White, 20% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by PINELLAS.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.