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Enrollment
652
Middle
DISTRICT 671 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTH ALLEGHENY SD·NCES 421701005108
Carson Middle School
200 Hillvue Lane, Pittsburgh, PA 15237 · (412) 369-5520 · Allegheny County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL652 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 74% of Pennsylvania public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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 Pennsylvania public middle schools
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
57 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
14%
91 students
DISTRICT 10% · STATE 75%
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 6 | 221 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 216 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 215 | 33% |
Student demographics
39%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 59% · 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
Carson Middle School→North Allegheny High School
Based on grade levels within North Allegheny SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
73.4%
PA avg 51.1% . +2.1pp since 2023
Math
55.7%
PA avg 43.0% . +5.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.4% | 55.7% |
| 2023-24 | 71.3% | 50.5% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. 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
64.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
71.6%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% typical for Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania'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 Carson Middle School
Carson Middle School's state test result (64.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carson Middle School this school | 652 | 14.0% | 64.3% |
| Fort Couch Middle School Pittsburgh | 647 | 11.3% | 79.9% |
| Park Forest Middle School State College | 822 | 15.1% | 71.3% |
| Newtown Middle School Newtown | 833 | 13.8% | 73.7% |
| Strath Haven Middle School Wallingford | 868 | 16.9% | 70.5% |
| Boyce Middle School Pittsburgh | 624 | 12.3% | 84.5% |
Matched among Pennsylvania 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 Carson Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.3% | #72 of 479 | #19 of 47 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.7% | #80 of 513 ▲ 25 | #20 of 51 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.4% | #52 of 513 ▲ 22 | #16 of 51 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 652 | #200 of 522 | #16 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #81 of 486 | #9 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.3% | #243 of 486 | #24 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.0% | #489 of 510 | #43 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.4% | #156 of 332 | #16 of 27 |
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
652
-16 (-2%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 821
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
was 12.2:1
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 | 652 | 57.5 | 11.3:1 | 14% (91) |
| 2023-24 | 648 | 58.4 | 11.1:1 | 14% (91) |
| 2022-23 | 655 | 60.9 | 10.8:1 | 16% (107) |
| 2020-21 | 668 | 55 | 12.2:1 | 13% (88) |
| 2017-18 | 736 | 55.8 | 13.2:1 | 9% (69) |
| 2015-16 | 715 | 52 | 13.8:1 | 9% (64) |
| 2010-11 | 727 | 59 | 12.3:1 | 7% (50) |
| 2000-01 | 702 | 57 | 12.3:1 | 4% (29) |
| 1990-91 | 821 | 52 | 15.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Carson Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (736 to 652); teachers up 3% (55.8 to 57.5).
About Carson Middle School
Carson Middle School is a mid-sized middle school. Its address is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It teaches 652 students in grades 6 through 8.
North Allegheny SD (11 schools, 8,552 students) runs Carson Middle School.
About 77% of the student body at Carson Middle School is White. Other groups make up 12% Asian, 5% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. Allegheny County residents are about 76% White, a similar share. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 39%.
The school has 57.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 11.3 students per teacher. Middle schools in Pennsylvania have an average ratio of 13.2:1. The school reported 14% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That is lower than the 54% average for public schools in Allegheny County.
Carson Middle School earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 74% of Pennsylvania public middle schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Carson Middle School falls in the middle 80% of Pennsylvania schools: 64.3% actual against 71.6% predicted.
In Allegheny County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $78,548, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. The county has 277 public schools and about 141,392 students.
The closest school to Carson Middle School is McKnight Elementary School, located about 0.4 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Carson Middle School. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, Carson Middle School ranks 7th on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Carson Middle School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 668 to 652.
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Allegheny County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,238,177
Census ACS
Median income
$78,548
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
277
141,392 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in North Allegheny SD
- North Allegheny High SchoolHigh · 2,711 students
- McKnight Elementary SchoolElementary · 875 students
- Marshall Middle SchoolMiddle · 847 students
- Marshall Elementary SchoolElementary · 800 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 718 students
- Ingomar Middle SchoolMiddle · 514 students
Other schools in Pittsburgh
- Mt Lebanon SHSHigh · 1,772 students
- Baldwin SHSHigh · 1,657 students
- North Hills High SchoolHigh · 1,443 students
- Pittsburgh Allderdice High SchoolHigh · 1,386 students
- Fox Chapel Area High SchoolHigh · 1,360 students
- Upper Saint Clair High SchoolHigh · 1,269 students
Other Carson Middle schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Carson Middle. Carson Middle School is the 4th largest of the 4.
- Carson MiddleHerndon, VA · 1,358 students
- Carson Middle SchoolCarson City, NV · 833 students
- Carson Middle SchoolFORT CARSON, CO · 657 students
Nearby schools
- McKnight Elementary School0.4 mi · 875
- Peebles Elementary School1.1 mi · 400
- Ingomar Elementary School1.6 mi · 344
- A W Beattie Career Center1.6 mi · 7
- Hosack Elementary School1.6 mi · 348
- McIntyre Elementary School1.8 mi · 594
Frequently asked questions
About Carson Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Carson Middle School?
Carson Middle School enrolls approximately 652 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Carson Middle School serve?
Carson Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Carson Middle School?
Approximately 11.3:1 students per teacher at Carson Middle School.
How diverse is Carson Middle School?
Carson Middle School reports a student body of 77% White, 5% Hispanic, 2% Black, 12% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Carson Middle School in?
Carson Middle School is part of North Allegheny SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.