Carver High School

Carver High School, an intimate four-year high school in Columbus, Georgia, overseen by Muscogee County, enrolls 887 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 21% leaner than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 1,120 students.

Muscogee County runs 54 schools in total, collectively educating 30,091 students. Carver High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Carver High School reports that nearly all students (89%) are Black. Beyond that, the school records 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 47%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at Carver High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Muscogee County's rate of about 86%.

After controlling for student poverty, Carver High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 14.4%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Muscogee County indicate median household earnings sit near $58,073, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Muscogee County runs 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,110 students), of which Carver High School is one.

Brewer Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Carver High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 21.5%.

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

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Carver High School has shrank 22%, going from 1,136 students in 2018 to 887 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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