Enrollment
252
Elementary
DISTRICT 294 · STATE 446
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFF DAVIS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 280225000430
Carver Elementary
381 Williamsburg Road, BASSFIELD, MS 39421 · (601) 943-5151 · Jefferson Davis County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL252 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 83% of Mississippi public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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 Mississippi public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
249 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 80%
Community
0
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 | 16 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 39 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 39 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 46 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 34 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 36 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (39) is 8% larger than its 5th grade class (36).
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 62% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Carver Elementary→Jeff Davis County Middle School
Based on grade levels within Jeff Davis County School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
MAAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
55.4%
MS avg 45.9% . +2.8pp since 2023
Math
59.8%
MS avg 52.8% . +9.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Mississippi schools, those numbers are about 46 and 53. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.4% | 59.8% |
| 2023-24 | 52.6% | 50.0% |
% Proficient + Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: MAAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MS schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
65.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.7%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 45% typical for Mississippi schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in Mississippi's top 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
Carver Elementary's state test result (65.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carver Elementary this school | 252 | 98.8% | 65.4% |
| Coffeeville Elementary School Coffeeville | 257 | 100.0% | 53.1% |
| EAST MARION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Columbia | 298 | 99.0% | 46.3% |
| New Hebron School New Hebron | 259 | 96.9% | 45.1% |
| Osyka Elementary School Osyka | 214 | 100.0% | 70.7% |
| Charleston Elementary School CHARLESTON | 316 | 99.1% | 23.8% |
Matched among Mississippi 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 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.4% | #129 of 428 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.8% | #150 of 439 ▲ 87 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.4% | #153 of 439 ▲ 70 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 252 | #365 of 453 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.5:1 | #164 of 408 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.4% | #171 of 409 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.8% | #174 of 444 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -39.9% | #13 of 296 |
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
252
-145 (-37%) vs 2020
-69% since 1990-91, when it was 825
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
was 14.2:1
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 | 252 | 17.4 | 14.5:1 | 99% (249) |
| 2023-24 | 269 | 19.6 | 13.7:1 | 100% (269) |
| 2022-23 | 260 | 18.9 | 13.8:1 | 100% (260) |
| 2020-21 | 397 | 28 | 14.2:1 | 99% (394) |
| 2017-18 | 419 | 26.4 | 15.9:1 | 100% (419) |
| 2015-16 | 369 | 27 | 13.7:1 | 100% (369) |
| 2010-11 | 331 | 24 | 13.8:1 | 99% (328) |
| 2000-01 | 587 | 32 | 18.3:1 | 94% (551) |
| 1990-91 | 825 | 46 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Carver Elementary.
About Carver Elementary
Carver Elementary is classified as an elementary school. It is located in BASSFIELD, Mississippi. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 252 students enrolled. That is 43% below the average of about 446 students for elementary schools in Mississippi.
Carver Elementary falls under Jeff Davis County School District, which has 4 schools enrolling 1,217 students.
Black students are 65% of those enrolled at Carver Elementary. The remaining shares are 25% White and 10% multiracial. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 50, compared with 70 nationally.
Carver Elementary has 17.4 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.5:1. The school's 14.5:1 compares with an average of 15.9:1 for elementary schools in Mississippi. The school has 99% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 99% average for public schools in Jefferson Davis County.
Among Mississippi public elementary schools, Carver Elementary outscored 83%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Carver Elementary is 20.7 points above expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the top 10% in Mississippi.
The school's county is Jefferson Davis County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $38,548 a year, roughly 13% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 21% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Jefferson Davis County number 5, with about 1,217 students.
Jefferson Davis County High School is about 1.0 miles from Carver Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, 2 other public schools are within ten miles. On state test proficiency, Carver Elementary ranks 5th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
Carver Elementary falls in the Rural: Distant locale category, used for schools in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Enrollment decreased by 37% across 4 years, from 397 in 2020-21 to 252 in 2024-25.
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Jefferson Davis County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
11,117
Census ACS
Median income
$38,548
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
13%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
21%
Below federal line
Schools in county
5
1,217 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Jeff Davis County School District
- Jefferson Davis County High SchoolHigh · 368 students
- J. E. Johnson Elementary SchoolElementary · 335 students
- Jeff Davis County Middle SchoolMiddle · 262 students
- JEFF DAVIS CO VOC TECH CENTERHigh
Other Carver Elementary schools
25 other US public schools in 13 states are named Carver Elementary. Carver Elementary is the 21st largest of the 26.
- Carver Elementary SchoolMeridian, MS · 506 students
- Carver Elementary SchoolTupelo, MS · 312 students
- Carver ElementaryIndianola, MS · 250 students
- Carver ElementaryMAPLEWOOD, MN · 898 students
- Carver Elementary SchoolCarver, MA · 788 students
Nearby schools
- Jefferson Davis County High School1.0 mi · 368
- J. E. Johnson Elementary School9.3 mi · 335
- Jeff Davis County Middle School10.8 mi · 262
- Sumrall Middle School12.4 mi · 484
- Sumrall High School12.5 mi · 616
- Sumrall Elementary School13.2 mi · 960
Frequently asked questions
About Carver ElementaryHow many students attend Carver Elementary?
Carver Elementary enrolls approximately 252 students in grades PK-05.
Is Carver Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Carver Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Carver Elementary have?
Carver Elementary employs 17 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Carver Elementary?
Student demographics at Carver Elementary are roughly 25% White, 65% Black, 10% Two or more.
What district is Carver Elementary in?
Carver Elementary is part of Jeff Davis County School District.
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