Summary:
Carlisle Community School District in Iowa has only one middle school, Carlisle Middle School, which serves 543 students in grades 6-8. While the school has a relatively large student population, its statewide ranking has been declining in recent years, dropping from 196 out of 334 schools in 2022-2023 to 252 out of 337 schools in 2023-2024, indicating it may be struggling to keep up with the performance of other middle schools in Iowa.
Carlisle Middle School's test scores in core subjects like English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science are generally below the state average, with the exception of 8th-grade Math, where the school's proficiency rate is slightly higher than the state average. Additionally, 30.57% of the school's students receive free or reduced-price lunch, suggesting the school may be serving a population with higher levels of economic disadvantage, which can impact academic performance.
Despite the school's lower-than-average test scores and declining statewide ranking, it has a student-teacher ratio of 15.2, which is slightly lower than the state average. The school's spending per student for the 2018-2019 school year was $10,769, slightly higher than the state average. These factors suggest that there may be opportunities for improvement in areas such as curriculum, instructional practices, and targeted support for struggling students at Carlisle Middle School within the Carlisle Community School District.
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