Carver Elementary School

Carver Elementary School is a K-5 school of large scale in Dubuque, Iowa, one of the schools within Dubuque Comm School District, serveing 499 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 54% larger than the state mean of about 325.

Carver Elementary School is one of 19 schools operated by Dubuque Comm School District, a district that teaches 9,843 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Carver Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%); the rest reads as 4% multiracial, 4% Black, 2% Hispanic, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Carver Elementary School reports 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Around 32% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Carver Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 76.1%; this one delivers 81.9%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Dubuque County) logs that median household income runs about $77,630, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Dubuque County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,164 students), of which Carver Elementary School is one.

Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Carver Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Carver Elementary School at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 71.5%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Carver Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 12% since 2018, when it stood at 570 (now 499). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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