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Carter Middle School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Carter Middle School
Carter Middle School operates as a mid-sized middle school in WARREN, Michigan, part of Warren Consolidated Schools. Current enrollment sits at 679 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 502 students each, so Carter Middle School sits 35% above that benchmark.
Warren Consolidated Schools comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 12,338 students; Carter Middle School is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Carter Middle School logs that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 23% Black, 14% Asian, 7% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Macomb County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, On paper, Carter Middle School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.4:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Macomb County's rate of about 52%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Carter Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 34.4%.
Across the wider county, census data for Macomb County shows the typical household earns roughly $77,837 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Macomb County's 236 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students), Carter Middle School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Rockwell Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Carter Middle School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 32.5%.
The school occupies an urban site.
Over the past 7-year window. Carter Middle School's enrollment has contracted 15% since 2018, when it stood at 803 (now 679). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 70% to 53%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.0:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 today.
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