CARVER MIDDLE

Located at 4500 W COLUMBIA ST, in ORLANDO, Florida, CARVER MIDDLE is a small 6-8 campus that educates 639 students (grades 6 through 8), part of ORANGE.

CARVER MIDDLE is one of 272 schools operated by ORANGE, a district that enrolls 207,778 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CARVER MIDDLE logs that 85% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest looks like 12% Hispanic. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 20% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, CARVER MIDDLE shows 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, CARVER MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.5%; this one delivers 39.1%.

Around the school, census data for Orange County shows median household earnings sit near $79,719, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Orange County's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), CARVER MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ECCLESTON ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CARVER MIDDLE ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 44.8%.

CARVER MIDDLE operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. CARVER MIDDLE's enrollment has shrank 20% since 2018, when it stood at 800 (now 639). Black enrollment moved from 90% to 85% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

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