Summary:
Zip code 63834 is home to a single middle school, Charleston Middle School, which serves students in grades 6-8. The school faces significant challenges, with consistently low academic performance, high poverty rates, and elevated chronic absenteeism compared to state averages.
Charleston Middle School's proficiency rates on standardized tests lag far behind the state, with only 4.3% of 6th graders proficient in English Language Arts compared to the 39.3% state average. The school also has an extremely high percentage of students (98.11%) receiving free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a high-poverty student population. Additionally, the school's chronic absenteeism rate of 25.6% is substantially above the state average, which may contribute to the academic struggles.
Despite the school's higher-than-average per-student spending of $12,511, the academic performance remains poor, raising questions about the effective allocation of resources and the need for targeted interventions to address the root causes of the low achievement. With a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 13.2, the school may have an opportunity to provide more individualized attention to students, but significant improvements are needed to support student success.
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