Carver High

Carver High is a middle-of-the-pack senior high in Winston Salem, North Carolina, overseen by Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools. The school hosts 728 students in grades 9 through 12.

Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools runs 79 schools in total, collectively educating 51,745 students. Carver High is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Carver High reports that the largest single group is Black, at 55% of enrollment. Other groups include 38% Hispanic, 3% White, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

In terms of school funding signals, Carver High shows 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting Carver High tighter than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Forsyth County runs at roughly 88%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Carver High is in the bottom 10% of North Carolina public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 48.4%; Carver High posts 15.5%, -32.9 points below that line.

In the area at large, Forsyth County reports that the typical household earns roughly $67,165 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Forsyth County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,902 students), Carver High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Quality Education Academy, around 1.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Carver High ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 34.6%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 11%: 654 students in 2018 compared to 728 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 30% to 38% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

Inside the community feed, members of the Carver High community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.