CARVER MS

CARVER MS, a large middle school in Tulsa, Oklahoma, one of the schools within TULSA, serves 651 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Oklahoma's public schools average about 388 students each, so CARVER MS sits 68% bigger than that benchmark.

Within TULSA, which oversees 69 schools and 33,617 students, CARVER MS is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, CARVER MS logs that the largest single group is Black at 31%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 23% White, 23% Hispanic, 19% multiracial, 4% Native American. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.7:1, putting CARVER MS higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 55% of students at CARVER MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CARVER MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.9%, the actual is 34.8%, a residual of -2.1 points.

Around the school, Tulsa County reports that median household earnings sit near $69,009, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Tulsa County's 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,616 students), CARVER MS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is BURROUGHS ES, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

CARVER MS operates from a high-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. CARVER MS's enrollment has rose 6% since 2018, when it stood at 615 (now 651). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 31% to 23%. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.0:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 in 2025.

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