Fred J. Carnage Middle School

Fred J. Carnage Middle School is a magnet middle school in Raleigh, North Carolina and is part of the Wake County Public School System. The school educates around 1,100 students in grades 6-8.^[2]

Academics

A Gifted and Talented magnet school, Carnage offers basic curricular instruction supplemented with an extensive elective program which is based on the belief that all students have gifts and talents that should be identified and nurtured. All students choose three electives per quarter from an extensive list in the areas of foreign language, visual and performing arts, technology, physical education, vocational education, language arts, math, social studies, and science.^[3]

Carnage Middle School is well-equipped for a gifted and talented focus in Math, Science and Technology. It has multiple networked computers in each classroom, a wireless computer lab, and several fully equipped computer laboratory classrooms. Science electives such as archeology and botany provide opportunities for students to do independent research and learn about solving real-world problems. Carnage is also the only middle school in Wake County with a greenhouse.^[4]

The visual and performing arts program is also very strong and extensive. Students can choose from courses in visual arts, drama and acting, technical theater, chorus, dance, band, jazz band, and orchestra.

Learning related to many of the school's elective programs extends beyond regular school hours, as many extracurricular activities and clubs are offered at the school.

Carnage middle school also offers a program unique to the Wake County School System, Academically Gifted Basics (AG Basics). This program allows academically-gifted students who have been identified through the school system to engage in curriculum and instructional strategies that provide differentiated services to match students' educational needs. Instruction is accelerated in math, language arts, science and social studies. AG students (AG)may be identified to receive AG Basic instruction in Language Arts/Social Studies, in Mathematics/Science or in all four areas simultaneously. The school also has a full-time AG resource teacher to coordinate this program.^[5]

Partners in Flight

This project in December 2003 brought North Carolina and Ohio students and educators together to learn of, and celebrate, their Wright brothers' connection. As part of this project, the most outstanding Mars Space Suit design was submitted by a team from Carnage.^[6]

NASA’s National Space Grant Program

A senior aerospace engineering design class at the University of North Carolina formed a successful collaboration with 100 sixth-grade science students at Carnage. Students designed and tested prototypes of a wind-driven Mars rover for NASA that were displayed at the Festival of Flight in Fayetteville.^[7][8]

Incidents

On September 2, 2002 the grounds were the scene of a serious assault that was taken to the North Carolina Court of Appeals.^[9]

Christine Wolfe, a teacher, was charged by the police, in May 2006, with abusing an autistic 13-year-old.^[10]

Notable alumni

• Anoop Desai, singer

References

External links

• Official site
• Wake County Public School System