Carver Elementary School

Located at 3100 Mobile Dr, in Montgomery, Alabama, Carver Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary-level community that serves 374 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Montgomery County. Enrollment runs roughly 22% below the state mean of about 480.

Within Montgomery County, which oversees 51 schools and 26,958 students, Carver Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Carver Elementary School reports that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 59% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 63% of students at Carver Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Carver Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 54.3%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Montgomery County) records that median household income runs about $59,386, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Montgomery County's 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,131 students), Carver Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LIFE Academy at Historic St Jude Educational Institute, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Carver Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Carver Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.4%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 19%: 464 students in 2018 compared to 374 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 97% to 90%.

On this page, members of the Carver Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.