CARTHAGE 6TH GRADE CENTER

CARTHAGE 6TH GRADE CENTER is a middle-grades school of compact scale in CARTHAGE, Missouri, one of the schools within CARTHAGE R-IX, hosting 377 students in grade 6.

Across the 10 schools in CARTHAGE R-IX (5,070 students total), CARTHAGE 6TH GRADE CENTER accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, CARTHAGE 6TH GRADE CENTER logs that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 47% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 83% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 71% 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 Jasper County's rate of about 57%.

With demographic context factored in, CARTHAGE 6TH GRADE CENTER performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.0%, the actual is 54.3%, a residual of +4.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Jasper County put median household earnings sit near $60,694, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jasper County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,177 students), of which CARTHAGE 6TH GRADE CENTER is one.

Nearest neighbor: MARK TWAIN ELEM., around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CARTHAGE 6TH GRADE CENTER ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 36.4%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

On allk12, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.