George Washington Carver School of Arts and Science

George Washington Carver School of Arts and Science is a very small four-year high school in Sacramento, California, overseen by Sacramento City Unified. The school enrolls 174 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 79% leaner than the state mean of about 838.

Sacramento City Unified runs 73 schools in total, collectively educating 37,657 students. George Washington Carver School of Arts and Science is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, George Washington Carver School of Arts and Science shows that 40% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest is composed of 35% Hispanic, 9% Black, 9% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, George Washington Carver School of Arts and Science logs 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting George Washington Carver School of Arts and Science tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 51% of students at George Washington Carver School of Arts and Science qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Sacramento County (around 63%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, George Washington Carver School of Arts and Science falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 49.4%; this one comes in at 24.3%, -25.1 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, Sacramento County reports that the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Sacramento County runs 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), of which George Washington Carver School of Arts and Science is one.

A. M. Winn Waldorf-Inspired is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around George Washington Carver School of Arts and Science. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), George Washington Carver School of Arts and Science ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 21.7%.

The school occupies a city-core site. George Washington Carver School of Arts and Science is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at George Washington Carver School of Arts and Science has shrank 36%, going from 272 students in 2018 to 174 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 66% to 40% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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