Carson Middle School

Carson Middle School is one of the reasonably sized intermediate schools in Carson City, Nevada, one of the schools within Carson City, with 833 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Carson City runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 5,072 students. Carson Middle School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Carson Middle School reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 43% White, 7% multiracial, 2% Native American. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

On the resource side, The school employs 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.6:1. The state averages around 22.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at Carson Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Carson City's rate of about 80%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Carson Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.5%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Carson City) shows that median household income runs about $72,355, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Carson City's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,072 students), Carson Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Early Childhood Center, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Carson Middle School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 31.7%.

Carson Middle School operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 29%: 1,176 students in 2018 compared to 833 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 48% to 43%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

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