Carver Senior High School

Carver Senior High School, an expansive senior high in Montgomery, Alabama, overseen by Montgomery County, works with 1,553 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 128% above the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 682 students.

Montgomery County runs 51 schools in total, collectively educating 26,958 students. Carver Senior High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Carver Senior High School logs that nearly all students (88%) are Black. Beyond that, the school shows 9% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 59% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Carver Senior High School logs 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.2:1, putting Carver Senior High School higher than the state norm the norm. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Carver Senior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.9%, the actual is 7.8%, a residual of -16.1 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Montgomery County) shows that median household earnings sit near $59,386, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Carver Senior High School is one of 60 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 31,131 students).

LIFE Academy at Historic St Jude Educational Institute is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Carver Senior High School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.4%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Carver Senior High School has grew 41%, going from 1,098 students in 2018 to 1,553 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 94% to 88%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 today.

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