G W Carver High School

Located at 3059 Higgins Blvd, in New Orleans, Louisiana, G W Carver High School is a mid-sized senior high that works with 771 students (grades 9 through 13), one of the schools within G W Carver Collegiate Academy.

G W Carver High School sits inside G W Carver Collegiate Academy, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Looking at the student body, G W Carver High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (88%). The remainder is composed of 10% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.0:1 average. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Orleans Parish runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Orleans Parish) records that median household income runs about $56,631, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. G W Carver High School is one of 82 public schools in Orleans Parish (combined enrollment of about 48,238 students).

The Delores Taylor Arthur School for Young Men is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around G W Carver High School.

The school occupies a high-density site. G W Carver High School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at G W Carver High School has contracted 6%, going from 820 students in 2018 to 771 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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