Summary:
ZIP code 89703 in Carson City, Nevada, has just one public middle school: Carson Middle School, which serves grades 6–8 with 833 students and is part of the Carson City district. Because it is the only middle school option in this ZIP code, families cannot compare schools against each other here — the most useful comparisons are against the district, the state, and the school's own prior years.
Carson Middle is a middle-of-the-pack Nevada middle school. Its state rank moved from 83rd of 153 in 2023–24 to 94th of 151 in 2024–25, then back to 83rd of 148 in 2025–26, holding 2 stars each year even though the district overall is rated 3 stars (7th of 12 districts, 42nd percentile). Reading improved from 35.6% in 2024–25 to 40.4% in 2025–26 across all grades, shifting from 3.1 points below the district to 2.1 points above it, though it remains 4.8 points below the state. Math was essentially flat (29.2% to 29.4%). Grade-level results look stronger: 8th-grade math (29.9%) and 8th-grade reading (44.3%) are both above the state, and the school beats the district in math in grades 6, 7, and 8. Science looks like a strength at the all-grades level (32.4% vs. district 25.0% and state 25.5%), but the comparable 8th-grade science figure is slightly below the state.
The biggest concern is attendance: 33.2% of students are chronically absent — about one in three — compared with 26.3% in the district and 25.5% statewide. The school also serves a high-poverty population, with 100% free/reduced lunch eligibility in 2024–25, per-student spending of $13,812 in 2023–24, and a student-teacher ratio of 17.6 in 2024–25.
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