Middle · Regular · Grades 7 to 8
Carson Middle, Herndon, VA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 1,358
- Teachers (FTE)
- 119.0
- Students per teacher
- 11.4
- Grades
- 7 to 8
This school's ratio is 1.9 lower than the district figure of 13.3. The Virginia average across schools is 14.0. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 13618 McLearen Road, Herndon, VA 20171
- Phone
- (703)925-3600
- District
- Fairfax County Public Schools
- County
- Fairfax County
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 510126001756
School meals
- Free lunch
- 236
- Reduced-price lunch
- 43
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 27920.5% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 236Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other middle schools in Fairfax County Public Schools
- Glasgow Middle 1,702 students
- Sandburg Middle 1,401 students
- Frost Middle 1,272 students
- Thoreau Middle 1,239 students
- Longfellow Middle 1,226 students
- Irving Middle 1,204 students
- Kilmer Middle 1,199 students
- Johnson Middle 1,165 students
- Twain Middle 1,026 students
- Hughes Middle 1,012 students
- Cooper Middle 997 students
- Jackson Middle 991 students
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.