Carver Elementary

Carver Elementary is one of the low-enrollment elementary-level communitys in Los Angeles, California, run under Compton Unified, with 293 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. That puts it 37% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Compton Unified, which oversees 36 schools and 16,304 students, Carver Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Carver Elementary shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 80%. The remainder comes out to 20% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Carver Elementary has 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 32.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 92% 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, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Carver Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 24.8%; actual is 42.7%, +17.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Carver Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: King/Drew Medical Magnet High, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Carver Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Carver Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 41.8%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Carver Elementary's enrollment has edged down 38% since 2018, when it stood at 475 (now 293). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 69% to 80%. Class-load math has grew: from 27.1:1 in 2018 to 32.6:1 in 2025.

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