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Enrollment
925
Middle
DISTRICT 634 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CARTHAGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360663000445
CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL
21986 COLE RD, CARTHAGE, NY 13619 · (315) 493-5020 · Jefferson County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL925 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 32% of New York public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public middle schools
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
92 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.7:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
440 students
DISTRICT 46% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 | 230 | 25% |
| Grade 6 | 252 | 27% |
| Grade 7 | 223 | 24% |
| Grade 8 | 209 | 23% |
| Ungraded | 11 | 1% |
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL→CARTHAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within CARTHAGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
43.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
54.2%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.0% | 54.2% |
| 2023-24 | 38.0% | 51.7% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
48.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL
CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (48.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 925 | 47.6% | 48.5% |
| A D OLIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL BROCKPORT | 726 | 48.1% | 47.0% |
| NORTH TONAWANDA INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL NORTH TONAWANDA | 725 | 46.9% | 35.0% |
| INDIAN RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL PHILADELPHIA | 730 | 47.9% | 59.8% |
| CORNING-PAINTED POST MIDDLE SCHOOL PAINTED POST | 925 | 48.6% | 51.2% |
| HERBERT HOOVER MIDDLE SCHOOL BUFFALO | 772 | 46.2% | 49.0% |
Matched among New York middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.5% | #454 of 766 | #4 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.2% | #446 of 768 ▼ 5 | #4 of 6 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #454 of 768 ▲ 38 | #4 of 6 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 925 | #101 of 796 | #1 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.0:1 | #287 of 683 | N/A |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.2% | #418 of 688 | N/A |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.6% | #441 of 773 | #5 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.5% | #480 of 524 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
925
+38 (+4%) vs 2020
+21% since 1990-91, when it was 767
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
was 10.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 925 | 92.3 | 10.0:1 | 48% (440) |
| 2023-24 | 930 | 103.2 | 9.0:1 | 47% (441) |
| 2022-23 | 899 | 82.9 | 10.8:1 | 51% (457) |
| 2020-21 | 887 | 85 | 10.4:1 | 47% (416) |
| 2017-18 | 949 | 79.4 | 12.0:1 | 52% (496) |
| 2015-16 | 990 | 75 | 13.2:1 | 43% (422) |
| 2010-11 | 1,063 | 60 | 17.7:1 | 44% (472) |
| 2000-01 | 732 | 52 | 14.1:1 | 39% (282) |
| 1990-91 | 767 | 52 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL
This page covers CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL, a high-enrollment middle-grades school in CARTHAGE, New York. The school serves 925 students in grades 5 through 8 in 2024-25. For comparison, middle schools in New York average about 531 students.
CARTHAGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL along with 4 other schools, enrolling 3,168 students in total.
By race and ethnicity, CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is 73% White. The rest of enrollment is 15% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 3% Black. Census estimates put the White share of Jefferson County's population at about 83%. The chance that two students picked at random at CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 44%.
The school employs the equivalent of 92.3 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 10.0:1. Across middle schools in New York, the average ratio is about 10.3:1. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is 48%. Across public schools in Jefferson County, the average is about the same, 49%.
CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is graded C by allk12, scoring above 32% of New York public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
After adjusting for student poverty, CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL lands between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 48.5%; the prediction is 57.5%.
Federal survey data for Jefferson County show that median household income is about $66,301, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is among the 39 public schools in Jefferson County.
The nearest public school is CARTHAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, at less than a tenth of a mile. There are 3 other public schools within five miles. On state test proficiency, CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 5th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
Federal records code the school's setting as Rural: Fringe.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment up 4%, from 887 to 925.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week at CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Jefferson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
115,040
Census ACS
Median income
$66,301
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
39
16,789 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CARTHAGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CARTHAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 887 students
- BLACK RIVER SCHOOLElementary · 572 students
- CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 394 students
- WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 390 students
Other schools in CARTHAGE
- CARTHAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 887 students
- CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 394 students
- WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 390 students
Other Carthage Middle schools
One other US public school is named Carthage Middle. CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- Carthage Middle SchoolCarthage, IL · 167 students
Nearby schools
- CARTHAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 887
- WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 390
- CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 394
- COPENHAGEN CENTRAL SCHOOL6.7 mi · 473
- BLACK RIVER SCHOOL7.8 mi · 572
- EVANS MILLS PRIMARY SCHOOL10.5 mi · 330
Frequently asked questions
About CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 925 students in grades 05-08.
Is CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 05-08.
How many teachers does CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 92 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.0:1.
What is the student diversity at CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 73% White, 15% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by CARTHAGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.