Carver Elementary School

Carver Elementary School, a medium-sized K-5 school in Meridian, Mississippi, overseen by Meridian Public Schools, hosts 506 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Meridian Public Schools runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 4,385 students. Carver Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Carver Elementary School logs that nearly all students (91%) are Black. Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Lauderdale County's rate of about 75%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Carver Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Mississippi public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 44.1%; Carver Elementary School posts 29.1%, -15.1 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Lauderdale County) shows that median household earnings sit near $50,817, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 19% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lauderdale County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,325 students), of which Carver Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Meridian PreK Academy, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

On allk12, members of the Carver Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.