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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Middle

Caro Middle School

Caro, Michigan

NCES ID
260804004378
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Caro Middle School is a public middle school in Caro, Michigan, run by Caro Community Schools. It enrols 346 students — the 59012th largest of 3,559 public schools in Michigan.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

346students

59012th nationally, tied with 157

Teachers

19.0FTE

67148th nationally, tied with 2,240

Students per teacher

18.2students

71486th nationally, tied with 427

Free or reduced-price lunch

67.3%percent

33463rd nationally, tied with 100

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Caro Community Schools

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Caro High School423 students
  2. 2Mccomb Elementary School349 students
  3. 3Caro Middle School346 students
  4. 4Schall Elementary School298 students
  5. 5Caro Alternative High School63 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Michigan median across 3,559 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−10.1%
  • Teachers−13.6%
  • Students per teacher+7.1%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+13.5%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.