CarmanAinsworth Middle School

CarmanAinsworth Middle School is a middle-grades school of moderately sized scale in FLINT, Michigan, run under Carman-Ainsworth Community Schools, teacheing 652 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 502 students each, so CarmanAinsworth Middle School sits 30% bigger than that benchmark.

Carman-Ainsworth Community Schools runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 3,500 students. CarmanAinsworth Middle School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, CarmanAinsworth Middle School logs that the largest single group is Black, at 57% of enrollment. Other groups include 24% White, 13% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, CarmanAinsworth Middle School records 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Genesee County's rate of about 61%.

In the area at large, Genesee County reports that the typical household earns roughly $62,281 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Genesee County's 158 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,534 students), CarmanAinsworth Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Elmer A Knopf Learning Center, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. CarmanAinsworth Middle School's enrollment has edged down 32% since 2018, when it stood at 953 (now 652). The White share of enrollment contracted from 29% to 24% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

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