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Enrollment
563
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000389
GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
238 GRAND AVE, CORAL GABLES, FL 33133 · (305) 443-5286 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL563 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 98% of Florida public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
93 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 18 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 88 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 97 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 94 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (88) is 6% smaller than its 5th grade class (94).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on published attendance-zone data from MIAMI-DADE. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
87.3%
FL avg 56.7% . +1.7pp since 2023
Math
95.3%
FL avg 58.9% . +3.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 95 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 87.3% | 95.3% |
| 2023-24 | 85.7% | 91.9% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
89.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
72.9%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 90% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 73% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Florida's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (89.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 563 | 16.5% | 89.9% |
| MATER BISCAYNE ACADEMY NORTH MIAMI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH MIAMI | 664 | 17.5% | 74.7% |
| DAVID FAIRCHILD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 473 | 18.6% | 77.4% |
| VINELAND K-8 CENTER MIAMI | 671 | 22.1% | 78.0% |
| ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTER MIAMI | 780 | 18.7% | 84.9% |
| HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL CORAL GABLES | 373 | 12.6% | 94.1% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 89.9% | #14 of 2,136 | #9 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 95.3% | #9 of 2,149 ▲ 16 | #3 of 279 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 87.3% | #28 of 2,149 ▲ 1 | #10 of 279 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 563 | #1,173 of 2,267 | #116 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.1:1 | #1,442 of 2,077 | #157 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.9% | #1,325 of 2,108 | #32 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.5% | #2,045 of 2,188 | #266 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +41.8% | #74 of 621 | #13 of 73 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
563
+26 (+5%) vs 2020
+31% since 1990-91, when it was 430
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
was 15.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 563 | 33 | 17.1:1 | 17% (93) |
| 2023-24 | 561 | 34 | 16.5:1 | 24% (133) |
| 2022-23 | 566 | 35 | 16.2:1 | 28% (158) |
| 2020-21 | 537 | 35 | 15.3:1 | 48% (259) |
| 2017-18 | 397 | 29 | 13.7:1 | 64% (254) |
| 2015-16 | 391 | 30 | 13.0:1 | 65% (256) |
| 2010-11 | 500 | 33 | 15.2:1 | 68% (340) |
| 2000-01 | 600 | 28 | 21.4:1 | 50% (297) |
| 1990-91 | 430 | 27 | 15.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public elementary school run by MIAMI-DADE in CORAL GABLES, Florida. The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 563 students.
Federal data list 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE, with 335,685 students enrolled.
Of every 100 students at GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 67 are Hispanic. After that, the student body is 20% White, 8% Black, 3% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Among Miami-Dade County residents, the Hispanic share is about 69%. The diversity index for GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 51%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Classroom staffing at GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL totals 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 17.1:1. The 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida is close to this figure. Federal data show 17% of students (93) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Miami-Dade County average 48%.
Among Florida public elementary schools, GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 98%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL would score about 72.9%. It scores 89.9%, a top-10% result among Florida schools on BeatsExpectations.
For the population of Miami-Dade County, the median household earns about $71,753 a year, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shares Miami-Dade County with 560 other public schools.
GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER MIDDLE SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away. Within five miles of GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 3rd of 9 on proficiency.
NCES describes the area around GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment figures show a rise of 26 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 17.1 students per teacher, compared with 15.3 in 2020-21.
The discussion board for GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is open to topics like special education services, counseling, and support programs. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Miami-Dade County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,738,356
Census ACS
Median income
$71,753
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
561
335,817 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MIAMI-DADE
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- SOUTH DADE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,382 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- HIALEAH GARDENS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,009 students
- BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,973 students
Other schools in CORAL GABLES
- CORAL GABLES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,894 students
- GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 941 students
- CORAL GABLES PREPARATORY ACADEMYElementary · 812 students
- PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 778 students
- SOMERSET GABLES ACADEMYElementary · 556 students
- INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PREPARATORY ACADEMYHigh · 375 students
Other George W. Carver Elementary schools
One other US public school is named George W. Carver Elementary. GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- George W. Carver ElementaryRichmond, VA · 404 students
Nearby schools
- GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 941
- FRANCIS S.TUCKER K-8 CENTER0.3 mi · 344
- CORAL GABLES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 2,894
- COCONUT GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 547
- HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 373
- PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 778
Frequently asked questions
About GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 563 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 33 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.1:1.
What is the student diversity at GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 20% White, 67% Hispanic, 8% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by MIAMI-DADE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.