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What's the most underrated thing about Carver Heights Elementary that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
407
Elementary
DISTRICT 569 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 370488000349
Carver Heights Elementary
411 Bunche Drive, Goldsboro, NC 27530 · (919) 731-7222 · Wayne County
GRADES 03–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL407 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 2% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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 North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.5:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
404 students
DISTRICT 98% · STATE 82%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 135 | 33% |
| Grade 4 | 130 | 32% |
| Grade 5 | 142 | 35% |
Student demographics
32%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 71% · 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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Wayne County Public Schools. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
23.4%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
29.1%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NC schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
27.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.5%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-21.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 49% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Heights Elementary
Carver Heights Elementary's state test result (27.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carver Heights Elementary this school | 407 | 99.3% | 27.5% |
| First Ward Creative Arts Academy Charlotte | 421 | 99.3% | 51.7% |
| Ferguson-Easley Elementary Fayetteville | 392 | 95.9% | 32.5% |
| Wahl Coates Elementary Greenville | 406 | 99.3% | 44.3% |
| Dabney Elementary Henderson | 385 | 97.7% | 31.1% |
| North Drive Elementary Goldsboro | 498 | 99.4% | N/A |
Matched among North Carolina 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 Heights Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Wayne County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.5% | #1,265 of 1,297 | #12 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.1% | #1,261 of 1,296 | #12 of 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.4% | #1,257 of 1,300 | #12 of 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 407 | #877 of 1,485 | #13 of 15 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #940 of 1,377 | #6 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.7% | #1,268 of 1,379 | #14 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.3% | #438 of 1,414 | #8 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.3% | #841 of 937 | #10 of 12 |
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
407
-18 (-4%) vs 2020
-45% since 2000-01, when it was 743
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 407 | 25.9 | 15.7:1 | 99% (404) |
| 2023-24 | 412 | 28.4 | 14.5:1 | 99% (409) |
| 2022-23 | 423 | 29.3 | 14.4:1 | 99% (420) |
| 2020-21 | 425 | 28 | 15.2:1 | 99% (422) |
| 2017-18 | 421 | 31.9 | 13.2:1 | 99% (418) |
| 2015-16 | 307 | 22 | 13.9:1 | 99% (304) |
| 2010-11 | 308 | 25 | 12.3:1 | 95% (292) |
| 2000-01 | 743 | 45 | 16.5:1 | 92% (683) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Carver Heights Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (421 to 407); teachers down 19% (31.9 to 25.9).
About Carver Heights Elementary
Carver Heights Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Goldsboro, North Carolina. The school teaches grades 3 through 5 and enrolls 407 students.
Wayne County Public Schools (33 schools, 17,150 students) runs Carver Heights Elementary.
Of every 100 students at Carver Heights Elementary, about 82 are Black. Other students are 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 4% White. That is higher than the 30% Black share among all Wayne County residents. A diversity index of 32% means there is a 32% chance two randomly chosen students at Carver Heights Elementary are from different groups.
Staffing at Carver Heights Elementary comes to 25.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.7:1. Elementary schools in North Carolina average 14.9:1, 0.8 fewer students per teacher than here. Carver Heights Elementary counts 99% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Wayne County is similar, at 98%.
On the allk12 Grade, Carver Heights Elementary lands at F, ahead of 2% of North Carolina public elementary schools.
Carver Heights Elementary is in the bottom 10% of North Carolina schools on the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure. Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 48.5%. The school's actual rate is 27.5%, 21.0 points lower.
For Wayne County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $59,733 a year, roughly 22% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 12%. Public schools in Wayne County number 36, with about 18,481 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Dillard Middle, is about 0.2 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, Carver Heights Elementary ranks 5th in a group of 7 nearby schools.
Under the NCES locale system, Carver Heights Elementary is City: Small.
From 425 students in 2020-21, enrollment fell to 407 by 2024-25.
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Wayne County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
118,652
Census ACS
Median income
$59,733
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
36
18,481 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wayne County Public Schools
- Charles B Aycock HighHigh · 1,138 students
- Southern Wayne HighHigh · 1,007 students
- Norwayne MiddleMiddle · 848 students
- Spring Creek ElementaryElementary · 804 students
- Eastern Wayne HighHigh · 781 students
- Spring Creek HighHigh · 732 students
Other schools in Goldsboro
- Spring Creek ElementaryElementary · 804 students
- Eastern Wayne HighHigh · 781 students
- Wayne Preparatory AcademyCombined · 765 students
- Meadow Lane ElementaryElementary · 674 students
- Rosewood ElementaryElementary · 650 students
- Eastern Wayne ElementaryElementary · 597 students
Nearby schools
- Dillard Middle0.2 mi · 319
- Dillard Academy1.0 mi · 261
- Goldsboro High1.6 mi · 412
- Wayne School of Engineering1.7 mi · 486
- Wayne School of Technical Arts2.0 mi · 271
- North Drive Elementary2.5 mi · 498
Frequently asked questions
About Carver Heights ElementaryHow large is Carver Heights Elementary?
Carver Heights Elementary enrolls approximately 407 students in grades 03-05.
What grades does Carver Heights Elementary serve?
Carver Heights Elementary serves grades 03-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Carver Heights Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Carver Heights Elementary is approximately 15.7:1 (26 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Carver Heights Elementary?
Carver Heights Elementary reports a student body of 4% White, 10% Hispanic, 82% Black, 4% Two or more.
What district is Carver Heights Elementary in?
Carver Heights Elementary is part of Wayne County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.