Carnahan Middle

Carnahan Middle, a tight-knit middle-grades school in ST.LOUIS, Missouri, run under ST. LOUIS CITY, works with 214 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 54% leaner than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 461 students.

Across the 62 schools in ST. LOUIS CITY (17,933 students total), Carnahan Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Carnahan Middle lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (92%). Other groups include 6% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

On the resource side, On paper, Carnahan Middle has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting Carnahan Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Carnahan Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 68.9%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for St. Louis city shows the typical household earns roughly $56,160 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across St. Louis city's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students), Carnahan Middle is one campus in the mix.

MERAMEC ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Carnahan Middle at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 55.1%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

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