24 public K-12 schools in Carson from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Carson has more public-school enrollment than 85% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Carson's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.
14 of Carson's 24 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 3 middle and 5 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.
Carson's reporting schools show 67.4% free-lunch eligibility across measured enrollment, alongside an average 19.2:1 student-teacher ratio. These are separate constraints: one describes the economic context of enrolled students and the other compares student and teacher headcounts. The 59-point gap between Eagle Tree Continuation and Magnolia Science Academy 3 is therefore more useful than the city mean alone. A school with a similar ratio may still report different counselor access, attendance, or gifted-program availability, so open the campus records before drawing conclusions about student support.
Carson school enrollment ranges from 18 students (lowest) to 1,423 students (highest), a spread of 1,405 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Eagle Tree Continuation | 77 |
| 2. | Glenn Hammond Curtiss Middle | 45 |
| 3. | California Academy of Mathematics and Science | 43 |
| 4. | Virtual Academy of the Arts & Entertainment | 42 |
| 5. | Annalee Avenue Elementary | 42 |
| 6. | Leapwood Avenue Elementary | 40 |
| 7. | Carson Senior High | 39 |
| 8. | Academy of Medical Arts at Carson High | 38 |
| 9. | Stephen M. White Middle | 37 |
| 10. | Andrew Carnegie Middle | 37 |
| 11. | Two Hundred Thirty-Second Place | 37 |
| 12. | Bonita Street Elementary | 37 |
| 13. | Del Amo Elementary | 35 |
| 14. | Dominguez Elementary | 34 |
| 15. | Carson Street Elementary | 33 |
| 16. | Ambler Avenue Elementary | 33 |
| 17. | Dolores Street Elementary | 32 |
| 18. | Catskill Avenue Elementary | 31 |
| 19. | Towne Avenue Elementary | 29 |
| 20. | Ralph Bunche Elementary | 29 |
| 21. | Broadacres Avenue Elementary Visual & Performing Arts Magnet | 28 |
| 22. | Caroldale Learning Community | 24 |
| 23. | Academies of Education and Empowerment at Carson High | 24 |
| 24. | Magnolia Science Academy 3 | 18 |
Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.
Eagle Tree Continuation has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Carson schools in this federal-data comparison at 77/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Carson has 24 public schools with a total enrollment of 12,126 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 19.2:1.
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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.
