Carver Elementary School

Located at 220 Martin Luther King Drive, in DeRidder, Louisiana, Carver Elementary School is a small K-5 school that caters to 348 students (grades 2 through 3), operated by Beauregard Parish. Enrollment runs roughly 23% below the state mean of about 453.

Beauregard Parish runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 5,915 students. Carver Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Carver Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 57%. Other groups include 24% Black, 9% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 59% of students at Carver Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Carver Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.1%, the actual is 30.3%, a residual of -11.8 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Beauregard Parish) reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,944 per year, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Carver Elementary School is one of 13 public schools in Beauregard Parish (combined enrollment of about 5,915 students).

The closest other public school is Pine Wood Elementary School, roughly 1.5 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Carver Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 38.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at Carver Elementary School has decreased 15%, going from 408 students in 2018 to 348 in 2024. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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