Carver Elementary School

As a modestly sized elementary campus in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Carver Elementary School hosts 205 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E. That puts it 46% below the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

Across the 60 schools in Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E (22,293 students total), Carver Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Carver Elementary School records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 45%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 35% White, 10% Black, 8% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above El Paso County's rate of about 42%.

After controlling for student poverty, Carver Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 19.1%; this one delivers 11.7%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (El Paso County) reports that median household income runs about $90,363, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across El Paso County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), Carver Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Doherty High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Carver Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Carver Elementary School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 29.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Carver Elementary School has edged down 37%, going from 324 students in 2018 to 205 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 41% to 45%. Class-load math has fell: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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