Caro Middle School

Caro Middle School is a middle school of compact scale in CARO, Michigan, overseen by Caro Community Schools, instructing 305 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 39% below the state mean of about 502.

Within Caro Community Schools, which oversees 5 schools and 1,365 students, Caro Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Caro Middle School logs that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 7% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Tuscola County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Caro Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.5%, the actual is 32.3%, a residual of -10.2 points.

Across the wider county, Tuscola County reports that the typical household earns roughly $63,811 per year, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Tuscola County's 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,459 students), Caro Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is McComb Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Caro Middle School operates from a town-center location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 20%: 381 students in 2018 compared to 305 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 today.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.