CARTHAGE JR. HIGH

CARTHAGE JR. HIGH operates as a large middle school in CARTHAGE, Missouri, operated by CARTHAGE R-IX. Current enrollment sits at 773 students spanning grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 68% larger than the state mean of about 461.

Within CARTHAGE R-IX, which oversees 10 schools and 5,070 students, CARTHAGE JR. HIGH is one campus in the system.

Demographically, CARTHAGE JR. HIGH records that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 46% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Jasper County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 65% of students at CARTHAGE JR. HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Jasper County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CARTHAGE JR. HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 46.6%, a residual of -3.5 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Jasper County) records that median household income runs about $60,694, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CARTHAGE JR. HIGH is one of 49 public schools in Jasper County (combined enrollment of about 21,177 students).

The closest other public school is EARLY CHILDHOOD AND PAT CENTER, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CARTHAGE JR. HIGH at 2nd of 4; the average score across the group is 39.0%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 8%: 719 students in 2018 compared to 773 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 36% to 46% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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