Carroll Middle School

Set in Carroll, Iowa, Carroll Middle School is a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school, run under Carroll Comm School District. It enrolls 459 students across grades 5 through 8.

Carroll Middle School is one of 4 schools operated by Carroll Comm School District, a district that educates 1,593 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Carroll Middle School lists that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 6% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 93% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Carroll Middle School has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Carroll Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 72.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 69.0%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Carroll County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,930 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Carroll County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,912 students), Carroll Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Carroll High School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Carroll Middle School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 75.6%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Carroll Middle School's enrollment has shrank 16% since 2018, when it stood at 546 (now 459). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 89% to 83% over that span.

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