Carver High School Early College

Carver High School Early College is a modestly sized high school in Atlanta, Georgia, run under Atlanta Public Schools. The school hosts 514 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 1,120 students per school, that is 54% leaner than typical.

Within Atlanta Public Schools, which oversees 87 schools and 49,945 students, Carver High School Early College is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Carver High School Early College shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (94%). The remainder breaks down as 4% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting Carver High School Early College tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Fulton County's rate of about 62%.

With demographic context factored in, Carver High School Early College performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 26.1%, a residual of +0.4 points.

In the area at large, Fulton County reports that median household earnings sit near $95,292, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Fulton County runs 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), of which Carver High School Early College is one.

The closest other public school is Carver High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Carver High School Early College comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 25.9%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Carver High School Early College's enrollment has climbed 22% since 2018, when it stood at 420 (now 514). Class-load math has tightened: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 in 2025.

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