CARVER STEAM MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

CARVER STEAM MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the close-knit elementary campuss in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, run under LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 232 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 44% smaller than the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 418 students.

LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 40 schools in total, collectively educating 22,320 students. CARVER STEAM MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CARVER STEAM MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 81% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest breaks down as 9% Hispanic, 7% White, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 37%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, CARVER STEAM MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Pulaski County's rate of about 71%.

After controlling for student poverty, CARVER STEAM MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 21.9%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Pulaski County indicate the typical household earns roughly $62,873 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Pulaski County runs 133 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,124 students), of which CARVER STEAM MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

ESTEM EAST VILLAGE JUNIOR HIGH PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CARVER STEAM MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 23.8%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. CARVER STEAM MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 43% since 2018, when it stood at 406 (now 232). Over the same period, the Black share ticked up from 77% to 81%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

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