CARR ELEMENTARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL

CARR ELEMENTARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the one-room-style elementary-level communitys in CLARKSVILLE, Florida, run under CALHOUN, with 205 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 66% below the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

Within CALHOUN, which oversees 6 schools and 2,031 students, CARR ELEMENTARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, CARR ELEMENTARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 7% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Calhoun County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 51% of students at CARR ELEMENTARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, CARR ELEMENTARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.5%.

Across the wider county, census data for Calhoun County shows median household income runs about $50,517, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. CARR ELEMENTARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 6 public schools in Calhoun County (combined enrollment of about 2,031 students).

CALHOUN VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION PROGRAM is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.9 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, CARR ELEMENTARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 55.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 17%: 246 students in 2018 compared to 205 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.