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Enrollment
499
Elementary
DISTRICT 349 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DUBUQUE COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190948001532
Carver Elementary School
2007 Radford Road, Dubuque, IA 52002 · (563) 552-4500 · Dubuque County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL499 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 84% of Iowa 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.
- A-Beats 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 Iowa public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
158 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 41%
Community
5
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 | 26 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 90 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 87 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (87).
Student demographics
24%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 48% · 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
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
82.2%
IA avg 73.6% . +0.2pp since 2023
Math
83.8%
IA avg 70.9% . -1.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 84 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.2% | 83.8% |
| 2023-24 | 82.0% | 85.2% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
81.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
76.1%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 76% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Iowa's top nor bottom 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 Carver Elementary School
Carver Elementary School's state test result (81.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carver Elementary School this school | 499 | 31.7% | 81.9% |
| John Kennedy Elementary School Dubuque | 493 | 29.8% | 77.5% |
| Cedar Heights Elementary School Cedar Falls | 451 | 33.7% | 73.3% |
| Central Lee Elementary School Donnellson | 564 | 29.8% | 72.2% |
| Ekstrand Elementary School De Witt | 464 | 30.2% | 77.3% |
| Winterset Elementary School Winterset | 488 | 32.8% | 71.9% |
Matched among Iowa 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 Carver Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Dubuque County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 81.9% | #100 of 564 | #2 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 83.8% | #148 of 564 ▼ 42 | #5 of 16 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.2% | #114 of 564 ▼ 35 | #2 of 16 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 499 | #101 of 705 | #2 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #416 of 561 | #15 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 24.3% | #379 of 561 | #11 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.7% | #478 of 666 | #11 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.5% | #189 of 359 | #4 of 7 |
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
499
-25 (-5%) vs 2020
-11% since 2010-11, when it was 562
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 499 | 34.2 | 14.6:1 | 32% (158) |
| 2023-24 | 501 | 33.3 | 15.0:1 | 31% (155) |
| 2022-23 | 535 | 34.2 | 15.6:1 | 31% (167) |
| 2020-21 | 524 | 33 | 15.9:1 | 24% (124) |
| 2017-18 | 570 | 33.4 | 17.1:1 | 23% (129) |
| 2015-16 | 549 | 34 | 16.1:1 | 23% (124) |
| 2010-11 | 562 | 33 | 17.0:1 | 27% (150) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Carver Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (570 to 499); teachers up 2% (33.4 to 34.2).
About Carver Elementary School
Carver Elementary School is a large elementary school in Dubuque, Iowa, under Dubuque Comm School District. It has an enrollment of 499 students in pre-K through 5. That compares with an average of about 325 students for elementary schools in Iowa.
The district, Dubuque Comm School District, operates 19 schools serving 9,843 students.
At Carver Elementary School, 87% of students are White. Other students are 4% multiracial, 4% Black, 2% Hispanic, and 2% Asian. Census estimates put Dubuque County at about 89% White, close to the school's figure. The diversity index for Carver Elementary School is 24%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Staffing at Carver Elementary School comes to 34.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.6:1. Elementary schools in Iowa have an average ratio of 13.7:1. On the income side, 32% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Carver Elementary School holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 84% of Iowa public elementary schools.
Carver Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Iowa schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 81.9% and a predicted 76.1%.
The county, Dubuque County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $77,630 a year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Dubuque County has 26 public schools with about 13,164 students, including Carver Elementary School.
Of the public schools around it, Carver Elementary School is closest to Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School, about 0.1 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 71.5% on proficiency, and Carver Elementary School is above that at 81.9%.
Federal data place Carver Elementary School in the City: Small locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
From 524 students in 2020-21, enrollment decreased to 499 by 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 14.6 students per teacher, compared with 15.9 in 2020-21.
On allk12, people connected to Carver Elementary School can post about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Dubuque County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
99,030
Census ACS
Median income
$77,630
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
26
13,164 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Dubuque Comm School District
- Hempstead High SchoolHigh · 1,499 students
- Dubuque Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,490 students
- Eleanor Roosevelt Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,081 students
- George Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 584 students
- Eisenhower Elementary SchoolElementary · 568 students
- John Kennedy Elementary SchoolElementary · 493 students
Other schools in Dubuque
- Hempstead High SchoolHigh · 1,499 students
- Dubuque Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,490 students
- Eleanor Roosevelt Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,081 students
- George Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 584 students
- Eisenhower Elementary SchoolElementary · 568 students
- John Kennedy Elementary SchoolElementary · 493 students
Other Carver Elementary schools
25 other US public schools in 13 states are named Carver Elementary. Carver Elementary School is the 12th largest of the 26.
- Carver ElementaryDes Moines, IA · 436 students
- Carver ElementaryMAPLEWOOD, MN · 898 students
- Carver Elementary SchoolCarver, MA · 788 students
- Carver Elementary SchoolCARVER, MN · 782 students
- Carver ElementarySan Marino, CA · 777 students
Nearby schools
- Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School0.1 mi · 1,081
- Hempstead High School1.1 mi · 1,499
- John Kennedy Elementary School1.6 mi · 493
- Seedlings Preschool Center1.7 mi · 70
- Hoover Elementary School1.8 mi · 292
- Eisenhower Elementary School2.1 mi · 568
Frequently asked questions
About Carver Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Carver Elementary School?
Carver Elementary School enrolls approximately 499 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Carver Elementary School serve?
Carver Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Carver Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Carver Elementary School is approximately 14.6:1 (34 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Carver Elementary School?
Carver Elementary School reports a student body of 87% White, 2% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Carver Elementary School public or private?
Carver Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Dubuque Comm School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.