CARVER MIDDLE

CARVER MIDDLE, a mid-tier middle school in SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, one of the schools within SPRINGFIELD R-XII, serves 618 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 461 students per school, that is 34% bigger than typical.

SPRINGFIELD R-XII comprises 54 schools with combined enrollment of 24,450 students; CARVER MIDDLE is among them.

On demographics, CARVER MIDDLE logs that White students make up the majority at 60%. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 11% Black, 9% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, CARVER MIDDLE has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Greene County's rate of about 47%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, CARVER MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 65.5%, a residual of +15.4 points.

Around the school, Greene County reports that median household income runs about $61,479, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Greene County runs 97 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,423 students), of which CARVER MIDDLE is one.

ADAH FULBRIGHT EARLY CHILDHOOD is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CARVER MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CARVER MIDDLE at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 61.7%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CARVER MIDDLE has declined 19%, going from 767 students in 2018 to 618 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 71% to 60% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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