Summary:
Carson has three middle schools serving grades 6–8: Stephen M. White Middle, Andrew Carnegie Middle, and Glenn Hammond Curtiss Middle. In 2025–26, the schools’ average proficiency was about 47% in English language arts (ELA) and 38% in math, close to state results of 49% and 38%; science averaged 25%, compared with 36% statewide. The clearest area-wide concern is science: every school was below the state average, including the highest-scoring school.
Carnegie narrowly led ELA at 51.5%, just above White at 51.2%; both were above the state result. White and Carnegie were effectively tied in math, at about 40% each, and both were slightly above the state. Carnegie also had the strongest science result, 29%, followed closely by White at 28%, though both were below the state. Curtiss was the clear all-grade outlier: its ELA result of 39% was 12–13 points below the other schools, its math result of 36% was about 4 points lower, and its science result of 18% was 10–11 points lower. One notable exception is Curtiss grade 6 math: 46%, about 9 points above the state for that grade.
Results improved overall from 2024–25 to 2025–26: the three-school average rose 3 points in ELA and 6 points in math, while the statewide gains were about 0 and 1 point, respectively. Carnegie’s SchoolDigger statewide percentile climbed from 47 to 63 over those two years; Curtiss rose from 37 to 46, while White moved from 65 to 63. Science trends differed: Carnegie gained 11 points, White fell 3, and Curtiss was nearly unchanged. For context, 2024–25 student-teacher ratios were 19.7 at White, 17.4 at Carnegie, and 16.1 at Curtiss; free/reduced lunch eligible shares that year were 82%, 85%, and 90%, respectively. These measures describe different school contexts, but do not follow the same pattern as the schools’ results.
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