Summary:
Carson City, Nevada has two middle schools serving grades 6–8 — Eagle Valley Middle School and Carson Middle School — both part of the Carson City district, which is rated 3 stars and ranks 7th of 12 Nevada districts. Enrollment is nearly identical: 854 students at Eagle Valley and 833 at Carson Middle. Both schools earned 2 stars in each of the last three years, and both have the same student-teacher ratio of 17.6.
Academically, Carson Middle is the stronger performer in 2025–26. It beats Eagle Valley in all three all-grade SBAC subjects — math (29.4% vs 20.8%), reading (40.4% vs 34.7%), and science (32.4% vs 28.7%) — and its 8th graders exceed the state in both math (29.9% vs 27.9%) and reading (44.3% vs 41.6%). Carson also improved in every subject from 2024–25, gaining 4.8 points in reading and 5.2 in science, while Eagle Valley declined in all three, losing 3.4 points in math, 4.7 in reading, and 2.8 in science. Carson's state rank rose from 94th to 83rd; Eagle Valley's fell from 95th to 100th. Eagle Valley's advantages are lower chronic absenteeism (27.0% vs 33.2%, with the district at 26.3% and the state at 25.5%) and science proficiency above both district and state levels.
Math is the weakest area for both schools, and Eagle Valley's 20.8% is its clearest gap — 9.4 points below the district and 15.4 points below the state. Resources do not explain the difference: per-student spending is $13,314 at Eagle Valley and $13,812 at Carson. Notably, Carson Middle reports 100% free/reduced-price lunch eligibility versus 46.96% at Eagle Valley yet still posts higher scores, though such rates can be affected by reporting methods like community eligibility. Also, school-level all-grade science matches 8th-grade science for both schools, while district and state all-grade science figures are lower, so science comparisons depend on which aggregation is used.
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