Public school / Primary
Carthage Intermediate Center
Carthage, Missouri
- NCES ID
- 290746003110
- District
- Carthage R-Ix
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Carthage Intermediate Center is a public primary school in Carthage, Missouri, run by Carthage R-Ix. It enrols 772 students — the 15498th largest of 2,483 public schools in Missouri.
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
772
Teachers
54.0
Students per teacher
14.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
71.9%
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.
Within Carthage R-Ix
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.
- 1Carthage High School1,610 students
- 2Carthage Intermediate Center772 students
- 3Carthage Jr. High752 students
- 4Fairview Elem.406 students
- 5Columbian Elem.379 students
- 6Steadley Elem.362 students
- 7Carthage 6th Grade Center359 students
- 8Pleasant Valley Elem.171 students
- Enrollment+129.1%
- Teachers+125.0%
- Students per teacher+10.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+45.0%
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