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CARVER DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL
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Set in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, CARVER DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack primary school, overseen by KANSAS CITY 33. It works with 468 students across grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 49% bigger than the state mean of about 315.
Across the 31 schools in KANSAS CITY 33 (15,079 students total), CARVER DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, CARVER DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 20% Black, 3% multiracial, 2% White. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 11% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting CARVER DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Jackson County (around 60%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CARVER DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.9%.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $68,577 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Jackson County's 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), CARVER DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
GENESIS SCHOOL INC. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CARVER DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, CARVER DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 51.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.
Trend over the last 7 years. CARVER DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL's enrollment has grew 38% since 2018, when it stood at 340 (now 468). The Hispanic share of enrollment shrank from 88% to 74% over that span.
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