Carver Elementary

Carver Elementary operates as an intimate elementary-level community in San Diego, California, overseen by San Diego Unified. Current enrollment sits at 187 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Carver Elementary sits 60% below that benchmark.

Carver Elementary is one of 174 schools operated by San Diego Unified, a district that instructs 94,828 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Carver Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 54%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 18% Black, 14% Asian, 7% multiracial, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 35% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Carver Elementary has 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.4:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, Carver Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.3%, the actual is 22.5%, a residual of -2.9 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for San Diego County indicate median household income runs about $106,268, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Carver Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Darnall Charter, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Carver Elementary. On composite proficiency, Carver Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.9%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Carver Elementary's enrollment has decreased 5% since 2018, when it stood at 196 (now 187). The Asian share of enrollment edged down from 24% to 14% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 24.5:1 in 2018 to 23.4:1 in 2025.

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